McKaye Renaissance Notes
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European History [1]
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Art and the Artist:
-art manifested corporate power
-merchants were dominant in the community
-Michelangelo sculpted David (Hebrew hero and king)
-religious themes dominated art; intended to spread a doctrine, act as a profession of faith or recall sinners to a moral way of living
-individuals and oligarchs sponsored art
-merchants, bankers, popes, and priests supported art glorifying themselves and their families (patrons)
-lots of money was spent on art
-art reveals changing patterns of consumption in Renaissance Italy
-less military spending (medieval times), more of an urban culture
-art became a means of displaying wealth
-Strozzi family spent most of their money on home furnishings
-wealthy Florentines had chapels
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