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A Midsummer Night’s Dream

Gargantua and Pantagruel

The Praise of Folly

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A Midsummer Night’s Dream

• Written around 1594 to 1596 • Describes the events of the

marriage of the Duke of Athens, Theseus, and the Queen of the Amazons

• Themes include: love, magic, dreams

• Takes place in a magical forest• Craziness and joys of people

in love

Written by William Shakespeare

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• English poet, dramatist, actor

• Used 29,066 different words in his play

• Born in Stratkford-upon-Avon

• Died on April 23, 1616 • Works included: 38

plays, 154 sonnets, 2 narrative poems

William Shakespeare

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Gargantua and Pantagruel

• Written in the 16th century

• Adventures of two gentle giants

• About travel and war• A series of 5 books• Satire of giants who

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Written by Francois Rabelais

Francois Rabelais

• Born November 1494• Was a monk,

physician, Greek scholar, and author

• Offers opinions on education and religion through his characters

• Writer of fantasy and satire,

• Died 1553

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The Praise of Folly

• Printed in 1511• Self deception and

madness of the Roman Catholic Church

• Satire of Universal human weaknesses

• One of the most notable works of the RenaissanceReturn to

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Written by Desiderius Eramus

Desiderius Erasmus

• Dutch Renaissance Humanist, Catholic priest, and theologian

• Latin style of writing

• Reforming the church within

• Born 1466• Died 1536Return to

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Basicala of Santa Maria Novella

San Pierto

Florence Baptistery

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San Pietro of Montorio • Built on sight of early

church in early 9th century in Rome.

• Decorated with artworks from Raphael and Mazzoni.

• Fourth chapel has a ceiling fresco by Giorgio Vasari.

• Fifth has a ceiling fresco by Vasari.

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Created by Donato Bramante

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Donato Bramante

• Born in 1444• Died in 1514• Designed several

churches in Milan• Designed buildings

with Gothic style• Inspired by

simplicity in buildings

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Florence Baptistery

• Built between 1059 and 1128.

• Located in Florence.• Known for three sets

of bronze doors with sculptures.

• Dante and members of the Medici family were baptized here.

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Built by Theodelinda

Theodelinda• Born in 570.• Died in 628.• Built many

churches in Lombard and Tuscany.

• Married Authari in 588, King of the Lombards.

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Basilica of Santa Maria Novella

• Church located in Florence.

• Built on sight of 9th century oratory.

• Built between 1279 and 1357 under supervision of Friar Iacopo Talenti.

• Built by Dominican Friars Fra Sisto Fiorentino and Fra Ristoro da Campi.Return to

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Basilica Continued

• A mix of humanist architecture and previous medieval architecture.

• The Holy Trinity, located inside, pioneered early Renaissance thinking with examples of perspective and mathematical proportions.Return to

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Secret and Profane Love

Knight Death and the Devil

The Last Judgment

David

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Secret and Profane Love

• Created around 1513-1514.

• Medium is oil on canvas.

• Niccolo Aurelio commissioned the painting to celebrate his wedding.

• Currently located in a gallery in Rome.

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Painted byTitian

Titian• Originally named

Tiziano Vecelli.• Born in Venice.• A well recognized

painter from the Venetian School.

• One of the most versatile Italian painters – could paint portraits just as well as landscape backgrounds. Return to

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Knight Death and the Devil

• One of Albrecht Durer’s three “masterpieces”.

• Created around 1513-1514 while he worked on his other two engravings.

• Artwork is an engraving.

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Durer

Albrecht Durer

• Born in 1471.• Was a German painter,

printmaker, and theorist.

• Established a reputation in his twenties.

• One of the first European Landscape artists.

• One of the first users of wood as a medium.Return to

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David• Sculpture created

between 1501 and 1504.

• 17 feet tall statue made of marble.

• Represents Biblical hero “David”.

• Currently located in Florence.

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Created by Michelangelo

Michelangelo

• Born March 6, 1475 in Tuscany.

• Italian painter and sculptor.

• One of the most versatile artists.

• Rival of Leonardo da Vinci.

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The Last Judgment• Located on the

altar wall of Sistine Chapel.

• Michelangelo started this 30 years after painting the ceiling of this chapel in the Vatican.

• Started painting in 1537 and finished in 1541.

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The Last Judgment

• Fresco painted in the Sistine Chapel.

• Depicted the second coming of Jesus and the apocalypse.

• Christ and his saints are judging the fates of human souls in the painting.

Sistine Chapel

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Sources• Bevington, David. "'But We Are Spirits of Another Sort': The Dark Side of Love and Magic in A Midsummer Night's Dream". A

Midsummer Night's Dream. Ed. Richard Dutton. New York: St. Martin's Press, 1996. 24–35.• Kiernan, Victor. Shakespeare, Poet and Citizen. London: Verso, 1993. ISBN 0-86091-392-9• Slights, William W. E. "The Changeling in A Dream". Studies in English Literature, 1500–1900. Rice University Press, 1998. 259–272.• Brooke, Nicholas (1998), "Introduction", in Shakespeare, William; Brooke, Nicholas (ed.), The Tragedy of Macbeth, Oxford: Oxford

University Press, ISBN 0192834177.• Holland, Peter (2000), "Introduction", in Shakespeare, William; Holland, Peter (ed.), Cymbeline, London: Penguin,ISBN 0140714723.• Taylor, Gary (1990), Reinventing Shakespeare: A Cultural History from the Restoration to the Present, London: Hogarth Press,ISBN

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(January 1955), pp. 52-55• "François Rabelais". Encyclopædia Britannica Online. Retrieved 2008-05-27.• Thelemapedia. (2004). François Rabelais. Retrieved on April 14, 2006.• Bahtin, Mihail, Tapani Laine, Paula Nieminen, and Erkki Salo. François Rabelais: Keskiajan Ja Renessanssin Nauru. Helsinki: Like,

1968.• "Desiderius Erasmus". Catholic Encyclopedia. New York: Robert Appleton Company. 1913.• Erasmus in Praise of Folly, illustrated with many curious cuts, designed, drawn, and etched by Hans Holbein, with portrait, life of

Erasmus, and his epistle to Sir Thomas More (London: Reeves & Turner, 1876). See original text in The Online Library of Liberty.• "Churches in Venice - San Magno and his eight churches". Slow Travel. 2009-05-31. Retrieved 2010-01-15.• "Project - San Pietro di Castello Church". World Monument Fund. Retrieved 2010-01-18.• Heydenreich, Ludwig H. Architecture in Italy 1400-1500 (London, 1996)• Florence and Central Italy, 1400–1600 A.D., Heilbrunn Timeline of Art History, The Metropolitan Museum of Art• The Premier Artists of the Italian Low Renaissance

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Sources• Gould, Cecil, The Sixteenth Century Italian Schools, National Gallery Catalogues, London 1975, ISBN 0947645225• Penny, Nicholas, National Gallery Catalogues (new series): The Sixteenth Century Italian Paintings, Volume II, Venice 1540-

1600, 2008, National Gallery Publications Ltd, ISBN 1857099133• Kirsch, Jonathan (2000) King David: the real life of the man who ruled Israel. Ballantine. ISBN 0-345-43275-4• J. de Tolnay, The Youth of Michelangelo, 20–21• Gallant, R., 1986. National Geographic Picture Atlas of Our Universe. National Geographic Society, 2nd edition. • New American Bible and commentary.: Matthew 25:40 and Matthew 25:45• Max Heindel, The Days of Noah and of Christ in Teachings of an Initiate (posthumous publication of collected works),

ISBN 0-911274-19-7• Janson, H. W.; Janson, Dora Jane (1977). History of Art (Second Edition ed.). Englewood and New York: Prentis-Hall & Harry

N. Abrams. pp. 428. ISBN 0-13-389296-4.• Herbermann, Charles, ed (1913). "Lombardy". Catholic Encyclopedia. Robert Appleton Company.• Jaffé, David; et al. (2003). Titian. London: National Gallery Company.• Jodra, Serge (2007). "L'Amour sacré et l'Amour profane, de Titien" (in French). Retrieved 2009-09-24. "l'Amour ingénu et

l'Amour satisfait; selon les autres, l'Amour et la Pruderie; ou encore la Vierge folle et la Vierge sage"

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