Renaissance - History Lab https://historylab.es Tue, 10 Jan 2023 13:38:23 +0000 en-US hourly 1 https://wordpress.org/?v=7.0 https://historylab.es/wp-content/uploads/2021/06/cropped-icono-historylab-32x32.jpg Renaissance - History Lab https://historylab.es 32 32 Plan of Toledo https://historylab.es/plan-of-toledo/?utm_source=rss&utm_medium=rss&utm_campaign=plan-of-toledo Thu, 01 Dec 2022 12:44:49 +0000 https://historylab.es/plan-of-toledo/ Urban landscape

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]]> Peasant revolts and the Renaissance, Ciompi Revolt https://historylab.es/peasant-revolts-and-the-renaissance-ciompi-revolt/?utm_source=rss&utm_medium=rss&utm_campaign=peasant-revolts-and-the-renaissance-ciompi-revolt Thu, 01 Dec 2022 12:44:37 +0000 https://historylab.es/peasant-revolts-and-the-renaissance-ciompi-revolt/ Peasant revolts

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]]> Banquet Scene in a Renaissance Hall https://historylab.es/banquet-scene-in-a-renaissance-hall/?utm_source=rss&utm_medium=rss&utm_campaign=banquet-scene-in-a-renaissance-hall Thu, 01 Dec 2022 12:43:52 +0000 https://historylab.es/banquet-scene-in-a-renaissance-hall/ Renaissance society

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]]> Portrait of Giovanni Arnolfini and his wife https://historylab.es/portrait-of-giovanni-arnolfini-and-his-wife/?utm_source=rss&utm_medium=rss&utm_campaign=portrait-of-giovanni-arnolfini-and-his-wife Thu, 01 Dec 2022 12:43:43 +0000 https://historylab.es/portret-van-giovanni-arnolfini-en-zijn-vrouw/ Painting that represents a marriage in which the woman is pregnant and where you can appreciate the wealth that the family had

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]]> Tree of the House of Medici https://historylab.es/tree-of-the-house-of-medici/?utm_source=rss&utm_medium=rss&utm_campaign=tree-of-the-house-of-medici Thu, 01 Dec 2022 12:43:43 +0000 https://historylab.es/arbore-della-casa-de-medici/ Arbore della Casa de Medici

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]]> Flagellation https://historylab.es/flagellation/?utm_source=rss&utm_medium=rss&utm_campaign=flagellation Thu, 01 Dec 2022 12:42:29 +0000 https://historylab.es/flagellazione/ Painting by Piero della Francesca.

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]]> The theme of the picture is the Flagellation of Christ by the Romans during his Passion. The biblical event takes place in an open gallery in the middle distance, while three figures in the foreground on the right-hand side apparently pay no attention to the event unfolding behind them. The panel is much admired for its use of linear perspective and the air of stillness that pervades the work.

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]]> Discourse on the Forgery of the Alleged Donation of Constantine https://historylab.es/discourse-on-the-forgery-of-the-alleged-donation-of-constantine/?utm_source=rss&utm_medium=rss&utm_campaign=discourse-on-the-forgery-of-the-alleged-donation-of-constantine Thu, 01 Dec 2022 12:42:06 +0000 https://historylab.es/discourse-on-the-forgery-of-the-alleged-donation-of-constantine/ The document known to us as the Donation of Constantine is one of the most famous medieval forgeries.

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]]> Written at an unknown date and place in the heart of the Dark Ages, for unknown purposes, it was embedded in the Forged Decretals in the early 9th century, and so drifted into the main collections of legal material used in the Middle Ages, including Gratian’s Decretum. In the absence of a stable political environment in Italy from the collapse of the Roman empire to the establishment of the modern Italian state, the papacy was obliged to provide for its own security. The document was used to justify it doing so. The text purports to be a legal document issued by the Emperor Constantine, transferring control of Italy and the western provinces to Pope Sylvester in gratitude for being cured of leprosy. The renaissance Popes, whose spiritual role seemed often secondary to their function as the heads of a minor Italian state, used it extensively to oppose the territorial ambitions of the great powers and support their own. But in the Renaissance, for the first time in a millennium, it was possible to compare such documents with the genuine products of antiquity. St. Nicholas of Cusa was one of the first to notice that the Donation did not agree with the picture given by other documents. But it was left to the quarrelsome but brilliant scholar Lorenzo Valla to make public that the document was a fraud. This he did around 1439-1440.

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