I remember in a Dutch museum seeing an old oil painting that showed an old man like a king with a crying woman who might have been his daughter with blonde hair I think in his arms facing away from the viewer. The background looked kind of like some open place like a desert with hills in the background and maybe a castle or fort. I found it interesting cause it was unlike any art I'd seen before. Thanks for any help.
Listening to a lecture on the Medici family by William Landon, he mentioned two figures that made me wonder what kind of terms their bank, and more broadly, what types of financial instruments the 15th and 16th century italian bankers offered. And what types of legal guarantees they had.
The figures that sparked my interest were that the Medici bank was founded around the beginning of the 15th century with 8000 florins. And then towards the end of the 15th century, Lorenzo de' Medici went through the accounts of their banks and figured out that they had spent 600.000 florins on public works and sponsoring artists (this would imply the net worth of the banks books being several times larger than that figure). This massive multiplication of their fortune seems incredible to me, so I hope someone could shed some light on how these banks operated to generate so much money in such a relatively small time frame.
To make things easier, letβs pick a particular monarch. Let say King Philip II. What does a βnormal Tuesdayβ look like for this guy? Whatβs his routine? How does he occupy his time?
This might just be because Iβm Filipino and I live in the Bay Area around lots of Filipinos but I feel like from around 2008-2014 Filipino Americans and Canadians had a time of cultural prominence, people were super proud to be Filipino, they were wearing those jackets, Filipino dance groups were big, we were getting new Filipino American celebrities, a lot of Filipinos were making music, influencing fashion, etc. The Swagapino era lol. In general just a time when it felt like we were more seen. I was a kid so idk if people were as intellectual about decolonizing themselves as people are now though. Maybe it was just the Bay but I remember hearing it was happening in Vancouver and Hawaii too
What are some pieces considered among the most important in the Renaissance era and early Baroque era? Pieces that contributed substantially to music as a whole, like I have an immense fascination with Bach's compositions and the spiritually rich late Baroque era but am just as curious of what pre-existing music was available to him that he could've studied as he pioneered some of the greatest and most important compositions of all time. Palestrina is regarded to be a key Renaissance composer - what were some of his most state-of-the-art pieces/songs, for instance?
We were looking at pieces of art from this period in class a while ago and I noticed a trend of portraying biblical figures and stories in a contemporary setting and attire. As someone living in the 21st century, the idea of religious work taking place on the streets of a major city feels anachronistic. So why was it so common for artists in the 1300 and 1400s to portray biblical figures and stories in this way?
Some example of work:
- The Birth of the Virgin (1342) by Pietro Lorenzetti
- Annunciation Triptych (1427-1432) by Robert Champin
- The Madonna in the Church (1438) by Jan van Eyck
- Saint Luke Drawing the Virgin (1440) by Rogier van der Weyden
- The Last Supper Altarpiece (1464-1468) by Dirck Bouts
- The Saint John Altarpiece (1474-1479) by Hans Memling
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Super modern art is scantily clad, but we could argue that's normal, like bikinis. Mid-modern art was well dressed though. What was the expectancy of modesty at the time?
Platform(s): PC
Genre: Puzzle / Builder
Estimated year of release: Probably around 2000-2005.
Graphics/art style: 3D old but still considerably decent graphics from what I remember.
Notable characters: n/a I don't believe there were any characters. You built structures from puzzle pieces.
Notable gameplay mechanics: You pivoted around a base and had puzzle pieces on the side column of the screen and you built various structures. ie. Renaissance-style esqe buildings, eiffel tower, old revolutionary era cannons.
Other details: Played on a computer after school kid care in 2005-2008
Once a book was written down on paper, what would the author do to make their book both available and known to others? Would they produce copies (either by themselves or hiring others) and send them out to libraries or kings of other countries and simply hope they would be read? Were there international "intellectual" organizations they could work with to spread their books? When an idea spread from, say Florence to London, would the Londoner be likely to have access to an actual copy of the book or did they only get pieces of information from correspondents (who may also not have had actual copies)
To be more specific, if there was a trade caravan or something going from Paris to Warsaw (or some similar distance) how many days would it have taken in 1500 ad, for example. Is there a good resource somewhere i could look at to figure these out on my own?
It's for the sake of some dnd worldbuilding, just trying to figure out how big i want my maps to be.
I'm not sure if it's been asked, but where do these names come from and what's the earliest manual where they appear? Capo Ferro has mentioned something similar in his manual but he's probably not the first one to use this naming system. Overall, it's quite fascinating to see this naming system being used for hundreds of years.
And also, how did "Quart" became "Carte"? Who is St. George in "St. George's Guard"? Why didn't people just call them guard 1, 2, 3, 4, etc. since the system no longer give figurative names to guards?
Yes, they are less in numbers. But they are more interesting and more complex than the ones from the 90s. Also, they have more themes to play with. Instead of having love as their main theme, they use more mature themes, mainly humanity and its vices. Greed, belated appreciation of things lost forever, blind ambition, etc. Yes, those themes are shared among all of Disney's movies to an extent, but pretty much all of the renaissance movies are primarily about love. Beauty wants Beast. Aladdin wants Jasmine. Simba wants to be king...and also Nala, etc. In Atlantis, Milo does end up with Kida, but that's not his goal originally, or the movie's. Jim Hawkins doesn't even have a love interest from what i recall. Lilo certainly doesn't.
There is this game I played a while back, when I was just a youngling. I think it had music reminiscent of Kings Quest. It was made for kids too I believe. I remember the cover art and loading screen had a big man, I think he was a Giant. But he had really short hair, like it was buzzed, and it was orange. He was wearing green for shirt (maybe pants too, if his pants werent green, then they too were brown) and he had a brown vest overtop.
I dont remember much of the video game because I could never get past the beginning. No matter where I clicked or what button I pushed, nothing would happen. But I do remember, he was sleeping on the path, under a tree.
I wanna say everything was drawn, characters and background. The characters were much more cartoony and solid color, and the background was more realistically painted.
I know its not much to go off of, but it is a game I have had stuck in my head FOR YEARS, and this huge amount of googling I have done hasn't gotten me any answer!
Also, since I never got past the first part, I dont know what kind of game it was.
Been making my way through a podcast about the history of England and recently got to Agincourt. The impression I get is one of wholesale commitment to the efficacy of a massed cavalry charge (even with so many dismounted men-at-arms, it sounds like well over a thousand heavy knights were used in hopes of scattering English archers) despite this working out so poorly at Crecy and Poitiers. Even as late as 1525, when the pike and arquebus had replaced the longbow as the nemesis of the heavy knight, a disastrous heavy cavalry charge by Francis decided the day.
I read about how other empires and kingdoms were slowly evolving away from this reliance - why did it take so long for the French to similarly change? Or am I just cherry-picking examples of bad use of cavalry where there are many other examples to recommend it?
Thank you!
I've always been interested in the history of Hungary from non-Hungarian perspectives. I've studied it in Gymnasium, but I feel much if it was possibly embellished due to being national history -
so! I turn to AskHistorians for a more well-rounded insight.
In Hungary, we were taught it was one of the most modern, well-disciplined armies that employed firearms very early with great effectiveness.
