Illuminating Renaissance and Reformation Artifacts (Texts, Paintings, Sculpture, and Churches)

Meet some of the artists, painters, sculptors, humanists, demonologists, and/or reformers who helped construct our present world. This visual collection serves to spice up the textbook and offers artifacts to view and fit into the context of the age. From images and text, we discover that the premodern world was colorful, vivid, and nothing short of amazing.

Friday, May 6, 2016

Which Came First??

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The Council of Trent may have been in part brought about in response to Martin Luther. Yet actions of the Catholic Reformation were in prog...

Happy Massacre Day!

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St.Bartholomew's day massacre was killing spree in Paris, France after King Charles IX of France ordered an assassination on the Hugueno...

The Spanish Armada

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The year was 1588 and the war was over England. The Spanish Armada was a Spanish fleet of 130 ships with a strategic aim to overthrow Queen ...
Thursday, May 5, 2016

The Four Witches or the Three Graces plus a Fourth

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The Four Witches is an engraving by Albrecht Durer, dating to 1497. The work shows four sensual, nude women gathered in a circle. The wom...

Judensau: Anti-semitism in the Reformation

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A Judensau is a folk art image of Jews in obscene contact with a large sow, which is seen as an unclean animal in the Jewish religion, tha...

Malleus Maleficarum

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The Malleus Maleficarum , or Hammer of the Witches , is a pamphlet on the prosecution of witches, written by a German Catholic clergyman...

The Three Graces

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This painting, called the The Three Graces,was made by Raphael in 1506, and was a probably a panel in diptych given to Scipione di Tommaso ...
Wednesday, May 4, 2016

Codpiece: Does Size Matter?

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When someone thinks of King Henry the VIII of England, typically the initial thought is about his six wives and the split with the Catholic...
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