LIFE during 14th century Italy: PAINTINGS

For my blog today, I have decided that I should feature the paintings during the 14th century. I don't know it just hit me, just right now, to make a blog about their paintings. And as I search for some information, I was fascinated with their paintings because most paintings are related to religion - mostly Catholicism; as a matter of fact, some of them are kind of familiar to me.

Early Italian artists adopted the techniques and traditions of Byzantine art: the gold backgrounds and timeless figures that give spiritual force to icons.

To give you some idea, here are some examples.

 The Assumption of the Virgin

The Crucifixion

 

 

 Head of Christ

Madonna and Child

 

 

 Saint Anthony of Padua

 

 

Saint Catherine of Alexandria

 

 

 It was just fascinating to see that those paintings are related to my faith, so I was just moved by looking at it :)

 

 

 

 

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LIFE during 14th century Italy: LITERATURE AND POETRY

For my blog today, I've decided to start with Literature and Poetry of Italy during the 14th century. As Boccaccio as our inspiration, I said "Hey! I think I should start from where Boccaccio is really known for." So here it goes.

When it comes to Literature and Poetry during this time, there are some big names that we might know. And I'm here to enumerate some of this well known artists.

First of, we have FRANCESCO PETRARCH. Petrarch was the first humanist, and he was at the same time the first modern lyric poet. He's a psychological poet, who examines all his feelings and renders them with an art of exquisite sweetness.  He is pretty well known from his works such as Canzoniere (Songbook) and the Trionfi (Triumphs)

Another well known artist was DANTE ALIGHERI, the greatest of all Italian poets. Divina Commedia (Divine Comedy) made Dante immortal, and raised him above all other men of genius in Italy.

Last but certainly not the least is GIOVANNI BOCCACCIO. He did not actually invent the octave stanza, but was the first to use it in a work of length and artistic merit, his Teseide, the oldest Italian romantic poem. Boccaccio became famous principally for the Italian work Decamerone, a collection of a hundred novels, related by a party of men and women who retired to a villa near Florence to escape the plague.

After those great artists, more and more artists arise to be one of them and some actually followed their steps and made them as their inspiration.

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LIFE during 14th century Italy

For our midterms, our professor told us to make blogs about life during the 1300's or the 14th century specifically in Italy. She also told us to use GIOVANNI BOCCACCIO to be our inspiration, a well known person in the field of literature and poetry.

We could actually write anything that interests us as long as it is related to the 14th century and Italy, too. We could write something on how they dress, how they entertain themselves, what are their means of transportation, anything!

So, for the next few days, check out my blog for new interesting things/facts about LIFE DURING 14TH CENTURY ITALY. :)

TANK YOU! :D <3