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Mediaeval Period

Mediaeval Period. Medi - middle -aeval / eval (Am E) – age / era Between what and what? The Middle Ages – Europe 900ish - 1400ish. Renaissance. Re – again Naissance – birth Rebirth of what? What other renaissances do we talk about?

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Mediaeval Period

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  1. Mediaeval Period • Medi - middle • -aeval / eval (Am E) – age / era • Between what and what? • The Middle Ages – Europe 900ish - 1400ish

  2. Renaissance • Re – again • Naissance – birth • Rebirth of what? • What other renaissances do we talk about? • The Renaissance – Europe, from 1350ish to 1600ish; starts in Italy

  3. Middle Ages to Renaissance • A change in perception • A change in World-View • A change in Knowledge

  4. Illuminated page from the Book of Kells, ca 800 CE

  5. Page from Gutenberg Bible printed 1455

  6. Ancient Roman script on Trajan’s Column

  7. Italic script (printed) Venice 1527

  8. Mediaeval medical teaching aid

  9. Da Vinci drawing of unborn child

  10. The Tryst Tree

  11. The Arnolfini Wedding – Jan van Eyck

  12. A Bohemian Madonna, St Vitus Cathedral, Prague

  13. The “Cowper” Madonna, Raphael

  14. Gothic groin vaults, C13

  15. The Duomo, Florence

  16. The Mediaeval Cosmos

  17. Copernican System

  18. Faces from C12

  19. A C16 face

  20. Discussion Time (small groups): • Thinking about what you have seen, how could you characterise the differences between the Middle Ages (before 1400 ish) and the Renaissance (after 1400 ish) • Be prepared to talk about at least one ‘contrast pair’ of images in the slideshow • Feed back to the class • Help construct a 3-4 sentence statement for the class to write into their notes.

  21. Your summary statement

  22. Cartoonish becomes realistic • Flat becomes deep • Religious becomes secular or pagan • Ideas of people become individuals • Idealism becomes observed reality • “Schematic” becomes “objective”

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