What is : Humanism ?

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1_Piero della Francesca - Flagellation of Christ (c.1455-60)
Showcasing a Pictorial space using perspective.  
Buildings built around the proportions of the human figure. 

Mid-fifteenth century
  • - General curriculum (studia humanitatis)
  • - New world view  

Renaissance humanism was the value of the individual.


2 _ 16th century portrait of Giovanni Pico della Mirandola.


Pico della Mirandola | Seminal Thesis (An Oration on the Dignity of Man) :
He argued that unlike all other forms of life, man had been created without a fixed place 'in order of things', but had the freedom to choose either to 'degenerate into the lower orders of life' or be born into the higher forms, which are divine' The great Craftsman , had created man to contemplate his work.'

Jacob Burckhardt | Publication (The Civilization of the Renaissance on Italy):
He stressed the importance of the cult of individuality that has been passed to us the idea of artistic 'genius' and an emphasis of human subjectivity 'man becomes a self-aware individual and recognizes himself as such'.

Architecture : 
The new sense of Objectivity was manifested in the emphasis on abstract FORM and PROPORTION, through which it was believed that various works of art can be made to conform to the principles underlying both man and the universe, while the feeling of subjectivity could be embodied using perspective. 


3_10 Books of Architecture by Vitruvius

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4_Leonardo Da Vinci's Vitruvian man

Leonardo Da Vinci's Vitruvian man,
"Illustrating the ideal proportions of the "Ideal " man which he described in Book Three, De Architectura - proportions, which he argued, also was the base of the Classical Orders. "


5_Classical order of Classical Greek and Roman architecture (Columns)

A brief history of representing of the body in Western sculpture _ Khan Academy series : 




References : 
--100 Ideas that Changed Architecture by Richard Weston:
Image 1 : Public Domain, https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?curid=2030007 Image 2 : By Italian School, Anonymous - WestminsterCollege.edu, Public Domain, https://commons.wikimedia.org/w/index.php?curid=6676044 Imge Image 4 : https://www.emaze.com/@ALIFRLZR/Leonardo-Da-Vinci

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