What comes to mind when you think of the Renaissance?

[chequita guevara]

Originally posted by Ted Striker
I'm not sure I follow.

Technically, those are empire style, late-18th early-19th Century British dress.

Why do I know that!?!

[Saras]

Originally posted by molly bloom


Ah, but stunning architecture appeared elsewhere in Italy- Venice and the Papal States, Milan- not under the jurisdiction of the Medicis.

And the Medicis weren't solely responsible for modern banking methods- the Bardi and Peruzzi were bankers too, and Luca Pacioli describes double entry bookkeeping as a practice followed in Venice- which also of course had a system of insurance for its merchants, and a very rich oligarchy.

NO ONE DOES IT LIKE TEH MEDICIS!!

going a bit crazy here, bear with me

[molly bloom]

Originally posted by chegitz guevara


Technically, those are empire style, late-18th early-19th Century British dress.

Why do I know that!?!

Technically, they ain't.

//www.fashion-era.com/regency_fashion.htm#The%20Empire%20Style%201800

http://zimmer.csufresno.edu/~monicaf/empire.htm

http://locutus.ucr.edu/~cathy/rd/rd.html

You'll see some more late Renaissance gowns here:

http://www.costumes.org/history/100pages/timelinepages/1500to1535a.htm

and here:

http://www.costumes.org/history/100pages/italiRenlinks.htm

[Boris Godunov]

Originally posted by dudemanjack
Opera

Bit early for that. The "first" opera wasn't until 1607, and then we're into the Baroque era.

[DeathByTheSword]

Originally posted by molly bloom


Ah, but stunning architecture appeared elsewhere in Italy- Venice and the Papal States, Milan- not under the jurisdiction of the Medicis.

And the Medicis weren't solely responsible for modern banking methods- the Bardi and Peruzzi were bankers too, and Luca Pacioli describes double entry bookkeeping as a practice followed in Venice- which also of course had a system of insurance for its merchants, and a very rich oligarchy.

doge palace right? been there done that got the t-shirt....but was beautifull as hell

[Buck Birdseed]

Originally posted by lord of the mark



buck is apparently referring to renaissance REVIVAL architecture.

Indeed. Dominated the architectural landscape up here for about a decade from 1890 onwards. Together with Neo-Gothic, Neo-Baroque and a few others it's one of the architectural "styles" of the late 19th century (old architectural languages squeezed onto contemporary frames) that modernism and the arts and crafts movement reacted against.

[molly bloom]

Originally posted by DeathByTheSword


doge palace right? been there done that got the t-shirt....but was beautifull as hell

Spot on.

I often wonder what might have happened had Venice not had to face the Ottoman Empire- what it might have achieved, with a trading and banking system and insurance that predated the V.O.C. and the East India Company, and efficient shipyards, the Arsenal, the glassware, printing presses and mining and market gardening enterprises, the salt pans- it's a mini industrial revolution just waiting to happen.

[Bereta_Eder]

mainly paintings in the louvre and venice. been there. I've been freaking everywhere

[DeathByTheSword]

Originally posted by molly bloom


Spot on.

I often wonder what might have happened had Venice not had to face the Ottoman Empire- what it might have achieved, with a trading and banking system and insurance that predated the V.O.C. and the East India Company, and efficient shipyards, the Arsenal, the glassware, printing presses and mining and market gardening enterprises, the salt pans- it's a mini industrial revolution just waiting to happen.

true that they had a banking system and a efficienter than normal shipyard...but both were way way smaller in idea and start up than the V.O.C and the East india company...banking exploded because of the companies such as the V.O.C and shipyard didnt get really effective until they started using winddriven sawmills...


for the rest i agree you can give a lot of to italy (although they took a lot of the arabic world)

[molly bloom]

Originally posted by DeathByTheSword

for the rest i agree you can give a lot of to italy (although they took a lot of the arabic world)

Have you by any chance read a book called :

'The Renaissance Bazaar' ?

" More than ever before, the Renaissance stands as one of the defining moments in world history. Between 1400 and 1600, European perceptions of society, culture, politics and even humanity itself emerged in ways that continue to affect not only Europe but the entire world. This wide-ranging exploration of the Renaissance sees the period as a time of unprecedented intellectual excitement and cultural experimentation and interaction on a global scale, alongside a darker side of religion, intolerance, slavery, and massive inequality of wealth and status. It guides the reader through the key issues that defined the period, from its art, architecture, and literature, to advancements in the fields of science, trade, and travel. In its incisive account of the complexities of the political and religious upheavals of the period, the book argues

that Europe's reciprocal relationship with its eastern neighbours offers us a timely perspective on the Renaissance as a moment of global inclusiveness that still has much to teach us today. "

http://www.oup.com/us/catalog/general/subject/HistoryWorld/European/?ci=0192802658&view=usa

It's a great read, and I really enjoyed the writing on Holbein's 'The Ambassadors'- one of my favourite paintings.

[DeathByTheSword]

ok dunnot why it is in response of my post (in a or a way) but wow tnx for the tip...starting college in september (again) in history this i like...i am sure to read it

[curtsibling]

What comes to mind when you think of the Renaissance?

Paintings of buxom Euro girls with crimped hair.

[molly bloom]

Originally posted by DeathByTheSword
ok dunnot why it is in response of my post (in a or a way) but wow tnx for the tip...starting college in september (again) in history this i like...i am sure to read it

I almost forgot- two more I can recommend to you if you are going back to study.

One is a corrective to the 'How awful the Middle Ages were' view of history (in comparison with the Renaissance, that is).

It's called 'Those Terrible Middle Ages- Debunking the Myths' and is by French historian Regine Pernoud.

The original's title is 'Pour en finir avec le Moyen Age' . The English translation is a little idiosyncratic in places.

http://www.amazon.com/exec/obidos/tg/detail/-/0898707811?v=glance

The other one is the " The Medieval Machine: The Industrial Revolution of the Middle Ages " by Jean Gimpel.

http://www.amazon.com/exec/obidos/tg/detail/-/0140045147/103-0832546-7235845?v=glance

[Bereta_Eder]

A big deal for rennesaince was done by byzantines escaping to venice at that time. there was a nice ehxibition some time back in venice from the municipality of the city about this
btw saint marco looks so orthodox i think we should confiscate it. not to mention the twin byzantine lions at the front.
tip dont go to venicein the heat of the summer you'll suffer

[Ted Striker]

Originally posted by molly bloom


Ah, but stunning architecture appeared elsewhere in Italy- Venice and the Papal States, Milan- not under the jurisdiction of the Medicis.

And the Medicis weren't solely responsible for modern banking methods- the Bardi and Peruzzi were bankers too, and Luca Pacioli describes double entry bookkeeping as a practice followed in Venice- which also of course had a system of insurance for its merchants, and a very rich oligarchy.

What about all those big azz towers that were built by those Italian merchant families? Those were pretty cool. Or was that during earlier times? You know, the same group that sold out the Byzantine Empire.

Damn crosspost with paiktis