1. European Culture 1550-1715

2. Art ► Mannerism  Begins 1520s and 1530s  Backlash against Renaissance secularism  Religious theme  Elongated figures and lack of balance, harmony, symmetry, proportion (shows suffering, heightened emotion, or religious ecstasy)

3. El Greco (1541-1614)

4. Art ► Baroque  Begins late 1500s in Italy – eventually spreads to Latin America  Merging of Renaissance ideals with spiritual feelings of religious revival  Detailed, ornate, dramatic, action  Architecture, art, sculpture

5. Gian Lorenzo Bernini (1598-1680) Ecstasy of Saint ThereseDavid

6. Rembrandt (1606-1669) Night Watch

7. Peter Paul Rubens (1577-1640)

8. Artemisia Gentileschi (1597-1651) ► 1 st woman elected To Florentine Academy of Design “Judith Beheading Holofernes”

9. Literature ► Literacy increases  Vernacular  Printing  More enjoyable literature (a.k.a. plays and novels – not necessarily religious)

10. Shakespeare -Wrote during Elizabeth I’s reign -Actor, playwright, and shareholder in theater -Tragedies, comedies -Naughtiness

11. Spanish Literature ► Eventually made its way to New World (Mexico) ► Lope de Vega  Playwright (popular in Spain)  Wrote perhaps 1500 plays – 500 survive  Wrote for $ and to please audience (not looking for best picture Oscar)

12. Miguel de Cervantes ► Crowning work of Spanish Literature - Don Quixote - Don’t see harsh realities due to own lofty ideals (thinks he’s a knight) - Hard work and fantasy are necessary for human condition