The Renaissance and the Baroque
1.Test 3 covers two periods of history--the Renaissance and the Baroque. One of the pivotal events of the Renaissance was the Reformation. The Reformation impacted both the policies of the church and society in general. For this assignment, I would like for you to research the Reformation. Answer the following questions: 1. What events/issues in the church led up to the Reformation? 2. What changes were made as a result of the Reformation? 3. How did the Reformation impact art and, even more directly, music? 4. What was Martin Luther's role in the Reformation? To receive full credit you must address each of these questions.
The minimum length of the submission is 300 words.
2.One of the most iconic artworks from the Renaissance is Leonardo da Vinci's The Last Supper. This subject matter inspired many artists and artworks during the Renaissance and throughout history. For this assignment, I want you to focus on three versions of The Last Supper: da Vinci's, Tintoretto's, and Salvador Dali's. On the website khanacademy.org, you can find short videos on the first two of these. Simply type in da Vinci's The Last Supper and Tintoretto's The Last Supper. Tell me two similarities between the three versions of the painting and two (or more) differences, using the information in the videos and/or your own observations. How does each painting fit with its era of history--da Vinci with the Renaissance, Tintoretto with the Baroque, and Dali with the modern era?
Sample Solution
The Renaissance and the Baroque The protestant Reformation was a series of events that happened in the 16th century in the Christian church. The start of the 16th century, many events led to the Protestant reformation. Clergy abuse caused people to begin criticizing the Catholic Church. The greed and scandalous lives of the clergy had created a split between them and the peasants. Furthermore, the clergy did not respond to the population`s needs, often because they did not speak the local language, or live in their own diocese. The papacy lost prestige. However, the split was more over doctrine than corruption. The Reformation became the basis for the founding of Protestantism, one of the three major branches of Christianity. The Reformation led to the reformulation of certain basic tenets of Christian belief and resulted in the division of Western Christendom between Roman Catholicism and the new Protestant traditions.
Mankind fits Baumbach’s description of a morality play, transcribed by a monk its contents are pious and the actions within the play are symbolic. Performed as a part of Christian celebrations, the themes disconnected from the rather pagan themes explored in Greek Theatre and instead connected primarily with themes of Christianity and purification of sin. In terms of Carnivalesque Mankind is filled with ludicrous and obscene humour ‘I pray you heartily worshipful clerk, to have this English made in Latin: ‘I have eaten a dish of curds, And I have smitten your mouth full of turds” where the audience is encouraged to enjoy the vice characters humour which disrupts society by establishing a dynamism in which radical new identities can be carried out with no risk of punishment.
Twelfth Night’s connection to the carnivalesque is that Shakespeare completely disregards daily dogmatic laws through his exploration of gender and disguise. The treatment of the puritanical character, Malvolio is similar to the treatment of Mankind at the hands of the three vices – Shakespeare connects weakness or villainy with antipathy towards music or theatre which juxtaposes how Baumbach mentions; the church condemned the art of acting as heretical and it’s use of dramatic techniques such as face painting and dressing in women clothes, disguise etc.
To some extent, Carnival is a restorative act and can be written with qualities which are meant purely to restore a status quo. In Mankind, as with all morality plays, there is a goal to be achieved of refining and delivering education to its spectators. Baumbach quotes Ricks (1987); “(if) the source of the texts of the cycles was the lector.. the source of the texts of the Moralities was the single vernacular item within the liturgy, the sermon”.