Renaissance HumanismHistory 104 / January 11, 2013
Italy during the Renaissance:a land of local
loyalties
The doors of theFlorence Baptistery(commission awarded toLorenzo Ghiberti, 1401)
Albrecht Dürer,Self-Portrait
(1500)
The “Donation of Constantine” in medieval lore
Veit Stoss, Altar of St. Mary’s, Cracow
Rogier van der Weyden, St. Luke Drawing the Virgin (15th Cent.)
Jan Hus (1369-1415) burned at the Council of Constance
St. Peter’s Basilica in Rome (built 1506-1626)
Dome of St. Peter’s (designed by Michelangelo)
Erasmus (woodcut by Albrecht Dürer, 1526)
Erasmus of Rotterdam
(painted by Hans Holbein the Younger)
Erasmus, Praise of Folly (first edition, 1511)
Hans Holbein the Younger,
Sir Thomas More (1527)
Thomas More, Utopia (1518 Basel ed.)