Renaissance Humanism History 104 / January 11, 2013
Italy during the Renaissance: a land of local loyalties
The doors of the Florence Baptistery (commission awarded to Lorenzo Ghiberti, 1401)
Albrecht Dürer, Self-Portrait (1500)
Baldassare Castiglioni author of The Book of the Courtier (ca )
The “Donation of Constantine” in medieval lore
Lorenzo Valla ( )
Matthias Grünewald Isenheim Altar ( )
Veit Stoss, Altar of St. Mary’s, Cracow
Rogier van der Weyden, St. Luke Drawing the Virgin (15th Cent.)
John Wycliffe ( ) and the Lollards
Jan Hus ( ) burned at the Council of Constance
Julius II Pope,
St. Peter’s Basilica in Rome (built )
Dome of St. Peter’s (designed by Michelangelo)
Gutenberg Bible: Genesis
Gutenberg Bible: Romans
Erasmus (woodcut by Albrecht Dürer, 1526)
Erasmus of Rotterdam (painted by Hans Holbein the Younger)
Erasmus, Praise of Folly (first edition, 1511)
Erasmus, Praise of Folly (1549 English transl.)
Hans Holbein the Younger, Sir Thomas More (1527)
Thomas More, Utopia (1518 Basel ed.)