A History of Modern Europe - From the Renaissance to the Present

46 Ch. 2 • The Renaissance Thriving Economies The economic prosperity and social dynamism of the city-states made the cultural a ...

The City-States of the Italian Peninsula 47 This miniature depicts the Piazzetta of the Republic of Venice, with all the activit ...

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The City-States of the Italian Peninsula 49 dominate the oligarchies that ruled the city-states. Prosperity increased the strong ...

50 Ch. 2 • The Renaissance Renaissance Political Life The originality of the Italian city-states during the Renaissance lay not ...

The City-States of the Italian Peninsula 51 Map 2.2 City-States in Renaissance Italy, 1494 The city-state was the fundamental po ...

52 Ch. 2 • The Renaissance always took precedence. (“Better a city ruined,” said Cosimo de' Medici, “than lost.”) The condottier ...

The City-States of the Italian Peninsula 53 papacy amid distant echoes of past glories. The city-states were increas­ ingly free ...

54 Ch. 2 • The Renaissance A Florentine council in session. Seville, but not Venice and Naples, each of which then had at least ...

A Dynamic Culture 55 bloody insurrection in the hope of expanding the guild system already in power. The possibility of another ...

56 Ch. 2 • The Renaissance The Rediscovery of Classical Learning The Tuscan poet Petrarch (Francesco Petrarca, 1304-1374) was am ...

A Dynamic Culture 57 A humanist educator and his charges. focus from the scholastic curriculum—law, medicine, and theology—to th ...

58 Ch. 2 • The Renaissance philosopher, or humanist, was a wise man who could govern. Cicero had written that what made an indiv ...

A Dynamic Culture 59 institutions. Religious festivals dotted the calendar. The colorful Venetian water processions of elaborate ...

60 Ch. 2 • The Renaissance them and ask the motives of their actions, and they, in their humanity, reply to me. And for the spac ...

A Dynamic Culture 61 rentine painter at the age of twelve. Following acceptance into the masters guild in Florence, he remained ...

62 Ch. 2 • The Renaissance Overall, the Renaissance did not bring about any significant loosening in the restrictions placed on ...

Renaissance Art 63 tecture emphasized elegant simplicity, an expansion of the simple rustic fronts that had characterized mediev ...

64 Ch. 2 • The Renaissance Pope Leo X, here presented by Raphael with two cardi­ nals, brought artists and musicians to his cour ...

Renaissance Art 65 Masaccio's Adoration of the Magi (1426). Patrons of the arts often specified not only the subject of the work ...