NATS 1760 Lecture Notes - Lecture 4: Gutenberg Bible, Johannes Gutenberg, Movable Type
27 Nov 2017
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Illegitimate son of a local lawyer his stigma for most of his life he fights against this status. Gets sent to florentine to a famous painter. His life deeply shaped by the larger social structures of renaissance europe called absolutism. If the power of the monarchy is absolute, this compels authority power absolute. Despite this, monarchs are constant trying to legitimate their authority. Their mechanism/tool to do this is called patronage. Absolutism: a political structure in which the power of the monarch/leader is taken to absolute. Patronage: a system in which rulers try to increase their own glory and legitimate their own power. Rulers seek out people to glorify their own reign. however; just art. This doesn"t work in the case of science. Patronage important to leonardo tries to overcome this stigma all life. He uses patronage to raise his social status. First thing he does is join the court of lorenzo the magnificent (cid:523)ruler of florence(cid:524).
