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Sixteenth and Seventeenth Century - Coggle Diagram
Sixteenth and Seventeenth Century
Poetic Collections
Printing press
The Bible
TYPES
Poetry
Epic
Pastoral
Lyric Poetry
DRAMA: It is a tool to teach religion
Moralities:
It is related to good and bad values
Mystery Play:
It had a didactic purpose depicting the life of saint and biblical scenes.
International dimension of literature.
All Europe read the same. People were united by humanism.
Latin continued to be employed as literary as well as an ecclesiastical, diplomatic and scientific means of expression.
Popular literature.
The primer.
Almanacs
Prose fiction
Propaganda.
RENAISSANCE
Architecture: Symmetry, proportion, domes geometry and columns.
Painting: Lineal perspective, landscapes, frescos. Anatomy, realism.
Neoplatonism: Perfection can be obtained through philosophy.
Mannerism: It exaggerates qualities. It uses acid colours, elongated proportions and exaggerate the anatomy of figures.
BAROQUE
Dramatic use of colors and contrasts between light and dark or light and shadows.
Music: New inventions appears such as: Opera, Orchestra, Sonata. The violin became the dominant instrument.
Time of failure
SCIENTIFIC REVOLUTION
Francis Bacon
EMPIRICISM
Baconian Method
Two ways of knowledge
Two dogmas
Religion
The "ancients" Aristotle and Platon
Natural Philosophy
Fact ➝ axiom ➝ physical law
ASTRONOMY
Galileo
Kepler
Descartes
3 principles
"I think, therefore, I am"
Cartesian dualism
Biology
Human Body
Galen
Harvey
Reproduction and classification
Performation
Encapsulation
Measurement
Advances in equipment and technology
Boyle
Modern chemistry
Boyle's law
Definition of an element
Newton laws of motion
ART
Baroque
Rubens
LITERATURE
Vernacular prose
Prose writings were to inform and convince, not to amaze or entertain
Poetry
The Cavaliers poets
The Metaphysical poets
Theatre
Drama was as important as printed literature to enable imagination or reach a large amount of people
Topics were restricted
Printing and publishing
Major industry