Italian Renaissance Courts: Art, Pleasure and Power (Renaissance Art)

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Popularity throughout Europe [ edit ] The Royal Ballet of the Dowager of Bilbao's Grand Ball, 1626. The Italian trade routes that covered the Mediterranean and beyond were also major conduits of culture and knowledge. The recovery of lost Greek classics brought to Italy by refugee Byzantine scholars who migrated during and following the Ottoman conquest of the Byzantine Empire in the 15th century were important in sparking the new linguistic studies of the Renaissance, in newly created academies in Florence and Venice. Humanist scholars searched monastic libraries for ancient manuscripts and recovered Tacitus and other Latin authors. The rediscovery of Vitruvius meant that the architectural principles of Antiquity could be observed once more, and Renaissance artists were encouraged, in the atmosphere of humanist optimism, to excel in the achievements of the Ancients, like Apelles, of whom they read. After the "golden age" of Petipa, Michel Fokine began his career in St. Petersburg but moved to Paris and worked with Diaghilev and the Ballets Russes. Wohl, Hellmut (2003). "Masaccio". Oxford Art Online. Vol.1. Oxford University Press. doi: 10.1093/gao/9781884446054.article.t054828. ISBN 9781884446054.

At the heart of the Papal Court was the Pope, who served as the Bishop of Rome and the supreme head of the Roman Catholic Church. Quarta crociata: conquista e saccheggio di Costantinopoli" (in Italian) . Retrieved 21 December 2021. Leonardo also began to experiment with architectural theory. He was inspired by the Milan brainiacs club — Donato Bramanate, Lucca Paccoli, Francesco Martini. Following the move of the Ballets Russes to France, ballet began to have a broader influence, particularly in the United States of America.

Baron, Hans. "The Crisis of the Early Italian Renaissance". Princeton University Press, March 1, 1966. ISBN 0-691-00752-7 Not surprisingly, the court had a strong martial influence. It hosted jousts, falconry, and hunting.

The new mercantile governing class, who gained their position through financial skill, adapted to their purposes the feudal aristocratic model that had dominated Europe in the Middle Ages. A feature of the High Middle Ages in Northern Italy was the rise of the urban communes which had broken from the control by bishops and local counts. In much of the region, the landed nobility was poorer than the urban patriarchs in the High Medieval money economy whose inflationary rise left land-holding aristocrats impoverished. The increase in trade during the early Renaissance enhanced these characteristics. The decline of feudalism and the rise of cities influenced each other; for example, the demand for luxury goods led to an increase in trade, which led to greater numbers of tradesmen becoming wealthy, who, in turn, demanded more luxury goods. This atmosphere of assumed luxury of the time created a need for the creation of visual symbols of wealth, an important way to show a family's affluence and taste. Dean, Trevor, ‘The Courts’ Link opens in a new window, The Journal of Modern History 67, Supplement: The Origins of the State in Italy, 1300-1600 (1995), S136-51.Main article: Russian ballet Mikhail Mordkin as Prince Siegfried and Adelaide Giuri as Odette with students as the little swans in the Moscow Imperial Bolshoi Theatre's production of the Petipa/Ivanov/Tchaikovsky Swan Lake. 1901