HUMA 1125 Lecture Notes - Lecture 14: Jacob Burckhardt, Vanishing Point, Chiaroscuro
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Renaissance means rebirth led to a period of habit, where change is easily labeled = lasted for generations (decades: a shift in intellectual context. 18th century this shift first appears in france among professors who study literature, leading to periodizing because literature has stages. 1850s, a swiss historian jacob burkhardt applies this ideas to italy through a book the culture of the renaissance in italy (translated to english, years to come). Idea of know thy victim before slaving them . Leonardo da vinci is interested in projecting a 3-dimensional perspective/space: vanishing point uses lenses and mathematics (e. g. , the last supper, abstract geometry. Renaissance: temporal distance (time: a person looking back to the roman empire says, i can see a world that is very admirable , between 450-1375 this time was not good, people made a mess of everything. A time of shadow = middle ages.
