Perspective Slides:
Bayeux
Tapesty, 11th century
Limbourg
Brothers, Les Très Riches Heures
de Duc de Berry, circa 1412-1416
Ambrogio Lorenzetti, "Allegory of Good
Government in the City", 1338-1339 --
Ambrogio Lorenzetti, "Effects of Good
Government in the City", 1338-1339 --
Ambrogio Lorenzetti, "Bad Government in the
City", 1338-1339 --
Giotto,
"St. Francis of
Duccio,
"The Virgin and Child with Saints Dominic and Aurea", circa 1312-1315
--
Giotto,
"Ognissanti Madonna", ca. 1310 –
Giotto
and his workshop, "Pentecost", 1310-1318 –
Dürer,
"The Draftsman's Net", 1525
Giotto,
"God the Father with Angels", ca. 1330 --
Ugolino
de Nerio, "The Ascent to Calvary" from the Santa Croce Altarpiece,
possibly 1325-1328 –
Giovanni
Baronzio, "The Feast of Herod and the Beheading of the Baptist", ca.
1330-5 --
Paolo
di Giovanni Fei, "The Presentation of the Virgin", 1398-9 --
Brunelleschi's
experiment, c. 1425 --
Masaccio,
"The Virgin and Child", 1426 --
Masolino
di Panicale, "The Annunciation", ca. 1423-4 --
Master
of Osservanza, "The Death of St. Anthony", ca. 1430-35 --
Master
of Osservanza, "The Meeting of St. Anthony with
van
Eyck, "The Arnolfini Marriage", 1434 --
Pisanello,
"The Vision of St. Eustace", circa 1438-1442 – the artist
worked in many places
Paolo
Uccello, "The
Domenico
Veneziano, "
Fra
Carnivale, "The Annunciation", ca. 1445-50 -- Urbino
Giovanni
di Paolo, "St John the Baptist going into the Wilderness", 1454 --
Antonello
da Messina, "
Paolo
Uccello, "St. George and the Dragon", circa 1470 --
Andrea
Mantegna, "The Introduction of the Cult of Cybele at
Leonardo
da Vinci, "The Virgin of the Rocks" (
Michaelangelo,
"Pietà", 1498-1499
Raphael,
"The School of Athens", 1509-1511
Renaissance
1. Giovanni Boccaccio, The
Decameron (ca. 1348-1353)
Get it from https://en.wikisource.org/wiki/The_Decameron or from any library or bookstore.
Read the Proem, and then
--Day 1: Intro., Novel 1, Novel 2
--Day 3: Intro., Novel 1
--Day 7: Intro., Novel 2
2. Jacob Burckhardt, The
Civilization of the Renaissance in
Get it from: http://historymedren.about.com/od/burckhardt/a/cri_main.htm or any large library or bookstore (physical editions are usually well-illustrated with the art referred to in the text).
Pt. 3 – Intro.; The Ruins of
Pt. 4 – The Natural Sciences; The Discovery of the Beauty of the Landscape; The Discovery of Man; Biography in the Middle Ages; The Description of Human Life
Reformation
1. Martin Luther, The Freedom of a Christian (1520): http://www.fordham.edu/halsall/mod/luther-freedomchristian.html
Skip the dedication (although we will look at it in class), and read the beginning of the work itself, from section [104] to the last full sentence in section [108].
Reformation
1. John Calvin, Institutes (1536) – selection: http://www.fordham.edu/halsall/mod/calvin-predestin2.html
2.
John Calvin, "Ordinances For The Regulation of the Churches Dependent Upon the Seigniory of
3. Council of Trent, 25th Session
(1563)— Read the first two sections on Purgatory and on the beliefs about
saints and sacred images: http://history.hanover.edu/texts/trent/ct25.html
. Then skip way down past all the
material on nuns, and read the section called "DECREE CONCERNING
INDULGENCES."
4. The Tridentine (or Council of
Account of
http://legacy.fordham.edu/Halsall/mod/17stsimon.asp
Webpage on
the Edict of
http://www.museeprotestant.org/en/notice/the-edict-of-fontainebleau-or-the-revocation-1685/
Locke's Second Treatise on Civil Government
(1689) for Week XII:
https://www.earlymoderntexts.com/assets/pdfs/locke1689a.pdf
Read Sections 4-51, 95-108, 123-156,
240-243
Voltaire's Philosophical Letters (Letters on
http://legacy.fordham.edu/halsall/mod/1778voltaire-lettres.asp
Read Letters VIII, IX, XI.