Blog entry #2: Telling the Story of the Early Renaissance: 2.7
This chapter introduces the Art of the West or mainly the Art in Florence Italy and its Architecture.
Florence was a city with people called merchants. It was one of those cities where tyranny was not
allowed, but only the people and republic could run the government body(Art of The West 00:00-
03:58). The people of Florence took interest in Art, Architecture, and trading goods. Most importantly,
trading was the main job that made the people of Florence gain income or wealth, People usually
traded wool and it was also the center of the European banking system (The Early Renaissance 268).
Although, Florence was the center of banking system and trade route, it was most famous for its Art
and Architecture. There were two famous artists from Florence who were competing against each
other one was Filippo Brunalleschi and the other one was Lorenzo Ghiberti, these two artists were
assigned to create a competition panel of the sacrifice of Isaac for the North Doors of the Baptistery of
Florence(Florence and The Renaissance 271). As a result Ghiberti won the competition of art, however
Brunalleschi was still praised for his Architecture skills when he constructed the dome of Florence
Cathedral and the Foundling Hospital.
Artwork Gates Of Paradise by Lorenzo Ghiberti
Artwork on Bas relief panels of Pulpit in Santa Maria Novella Church by Filippo Brunalleschi
One thing I learned about the video is that all of the Artists like Donatello, Raphael, Michelangelo
and Leonardo, etc. were in influenced by Lorenzo Ghiberti and Filippo Brunalleschi from Florentine,
Italy made art in their own way, but behind those arts told a story or depicted a persons character. For
example, Piero Della Francesca made art that told the story of the Italian revolution (4:17-6:39). It gave
people a visual perspective on what caused the revolution, how did it end. Also, there were other art
sculptures that represented the body government of Florentine just to show other people how they ran
their government and what type group of government there were from lowest to highest. Most of all,
the arts that were made get mixed into every Architecture/Infrastructure trying to tell the whole reason
of why each Architecture was made and told what significance did it have throughout the history.
The difference between Chapter 12 and the Video Art of the Western World is that Chapter 12 goes
into more detail about the Renaissance in Florentine Italy. For example, look at page 266 of Chapter
12, it explains the general events of Florentine Italy and the art while the Video just explains about the
art. Also, the Chapter 12 texts seems to show all the timeline in chronological order of every events,
architectures, and arts that were made during the Early Renaissance. Additionally, many more artists
and their arts get introduced in Chapter 12 as you read further down. Furthermore, Chapter 12
introduces a technology, the very first printing press, which was made to make copies of the bible
while the Video Art of the Western World just introduced the Town of Sienna, which was the neighbor
of Florence.
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