ARTH 214- Final Exam Guide - Comprehensive Notes for the exam ( 78 pages long!)

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Italy at this time was not unified, it was divided in city states (controls the country side around it, geographical land means power, and the borders surrounding it) Cit(cid:455) states do(cid:374)"t get alo(cid:374)g, a lot of fri(cid:272)tio(cid:374) o(cid:374) the (cid:271)ou(cid:374)daries (cid:894)e(cid:454). Florence, florence being the bigger city state wanted sienna, and sienna (cid:271)ei(cid:374)g the s(cid:373)aller (cid:272)it(cid:455) state (cid:449)a(cid:374)ted to sta(cid:455) i(cid:374)depe(cid:374)de(cid:374)t (cid:271)ut did(cid:374)"t ha(cid:448)e the resources to do so. ) The pope is always running out of money, he needs to maintain wars, propaganda, always asking for money. He needs to influence the city states to give him more money. Emperor wants just as much power as well. Church sculpture, pulpit (preaching platform), essential piece of church in the medieval and renaissance time. These platforms no longer exist, they were all smashed. Pulpit is box-like, covered in stories of christ and his time, easily legible, raised and placed on columns based on corinthian columns from antiquity (tie/rebirth of antiquity)