君子不器
[EMLS 3.2 (September, 1997): 2.1-61] The Poetic Nocturne: From Ancient Motif to Renaissance Genre “Night-walking” for instance is a crime for the medieval commoner (a royal charter of 1347 granted Bristol the right to imprison nightwalkers, for their motivation could only be felonous), but becomes a pious and aesthetic convention for the well-to-do, urban scholar…
Early Renaissance Art Early Renaissance Art (1400-90): Definition, History, Characteristics, Artists
Renaissance Humanism “Beauty was believed to afford at least some glimpse of a transcendental existence. This goes far to explain the humanist cult of beauty and makes plain that humanism was, above everything else, fundamentally an aesthetic movement. Human experience, man himself, tended to become the practical measure of all things. The…