Renaissance HumanismHistory 104 / January 11, 2013
Italy during the Renaissance:a land of local
loyalties
The doors of theFlorence Baptistery(commission awarded toLorenzo Ghiberti, 1401)
Albrecht Dürer,Self-Portrait
(1500)
Baldassare Castiglioni
author ofThe Book of the
Courtier(ca. 1508-1516)
The “Donation of Constantine” in medieval lore
Lorenzo Valla(1407-1457)
Matthias Grünewald
Isenheim Altar
(1513-15)
Veit Stoss, Altar of St. Mary’s, Cracow
Rogier van der Weyden, St. Luke Drawing the Virgin (15th Cent.)
John Wycliffe(1330-1384)
and the Lollards
Jan Hus (1369-1415) burned at the Council of Constance
Julius IIPope, 1503-1513
St. Peter’s Basilica in Rome (built 1506-1626)
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.)