Note 305: Compare with Emanuel Winternitz: "Both art and science in the 'quattrocento' drew their inspiration from one strong impulse: the tendency toward rationalization, sweeping through all branches of natural science, aiming at calculation and control of nature by establishing its laws." ❋ Unknown (2008)
Walter Ong notes that for cultures predominantly oral in their transmission of knowledge, such as quattrocento Italy, dialogue is essential to sustain the logical analysis of complex problems. 6 Moreover, since "Maestro" was a common salutation for a friar, Lazzaro could well have offered moral and spiritual counsel for Federico's assessments. 7 ❋ Unknown (2008)
The Donatello bust is accompanied by early quattrocento paintings of male profiles by Masaccio, Paolo Uccello and probably Domenico Veneziano, all of them with red cappucci —long-tailed hoods—piled on their heads. ❋ Karen Wilkin (2012)
It's a stunning show, with a checklist that reads like the iconic collection of an ideal museum of the quattrocento , plus compelling works by less familiar Italian artists and a few splendid Netherlandish portraits for comparison. ❋ Karen Wilkin (2012)
Investigation of such allusions allows us to better appreciate the workings of a quattrocento mind and the complementary roles of architecture and memory in its formation. ❋ Unknown (2008)
On one hand, there is the undertow of a plot line that proceeds from the introduction (1) and a comparison of the studioli contents and their experiential characteristics (2), through an overview of the relation between thinking and making in late quattrocento Italy (3), and its influence on the humanist education of a prince such as Guidobaldo da Montefeltro, as evidenced in the Gubbio studiolo (4 and 5). ❋ Unknown (2008)
Machiavelli's suggestion, for example, that a prince "not deviate from what is good, if possible, but be able to do evil if constrained," must be appreciated in context. 140 Although political and military leaders were exhorted to virtues of constancy and temperance, the late quattrocento (and early cinquecento) was not a juste milieu, as Machiavelli illustrates: ❋ Unknown (2008)
The Memoirs — in which we find Federico's biography among a short list of popes and rulers — is itself a verbal gallery of illustrious men of the quattrocento, including biographies for Cardinal Bessarion, Vittorino da Feltre, Nicholas of Cusa, San Bernardino, and others of Federico's circle. back ❋ Unknown (2008)
For example, colored letter cards (the quattrocento equivalent of "flash cards") introduced the youngest to the alphabet and assisted in the instruction of grammar. ❋ Unknown (2008)
EC2: What did the virtue of Prudence represent for the quattrocento? ❋ Unknown (2008)
EC17: How did the quattrocento reinvent the wheel? ❋ Unknown (2008)
EC7: What did the quattrocento think about the mechanical arts? ❋ Unknown (2008)
Innate talent was as mysterious to the quattrocento as it was for Vitruvius, who describes it as "hidden in the breast." ❋ Unknown (2008)
The Prince offers insight into the political machinations in Italy during the latter half of the quattrocento. ❋ Unknown (2008)
EC11: What do parrots and parakeets have to say about a quattrocento education? ❋ Unknown (2008)
EC18: In addition to designing fortresses and writing treatises, in what other ways did a quattrocento architect such as Francesco di Giorgio contribute to the life of a court and city? ❋ Unknown (2008)
Publicius bluntly states, "Resemblance among places should be avoided more than death," a comment that reveals a fundamental difference between contemporary and quattrocento perceptions of memory. 108 Whereas we now perceive errors of memory (including inaccuracy and "forgetting") to occur in the process of recollection, memory errors were traditionally considered to occur during the process of storage, owing to a failure to transform sense impressions into secure mental images. ❋ Unknown (2008)
Or, if you prefer to equip yourself with a contextual synopsis of late quattrocento views of thought - and material craft, go to chapter 3. ❋ Unknown (2008)
Recalling that from early recorded history the sphere has represented an idealized form of the universe, it is understandable, particularly in light of the late quattrocento "rediscovery" of Plato and Plotinus, that the pearl embodied notions of perfection, unity, and purity in miniature. ❋ Unknown (2008)
EC13: What were quattrocento pedagogical views toward natural talent and experience? ❋ Unknown (2008)
