ITALIAN 40 Lecture Notes - Lecture 3: Masaccio, Bubonic Plague, Sumptuary Law
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Renaissance: late 1300s (14th century) late 1500s (16th century) 1252- flronce"s gold orin: rise of capitalism, pawnbrokers. 1437= christians were banned from being pawnbrokers meaning jews became the pawnbrokers in florence (where the stereotype comes from) The gold orin got more and more expensive in terms of silver coins, also the silver coins had less silver in them (poor got poorer) Sumptuary laws: the poor had to wear less nice clothes (very elitist society) People did not understand how the disease spread (originally rats) Momentum from 1000 is halted, losing population rapidly and as a result damaging economy. Art is unchanging for many centuries: representative of christianity and christ, not much background, or perspective ( at paintings that focus only on saints/ Cimabue: move towards naturalism, more expressive version of jesus with more depth. !1: more depth with a spatial construction and background, motion and gesturing. Giotto: meeting at the golden gate (1305)
