Renaissance: the generational evolution

I do not want turn to literary Renaissance or artistic, because we have read thousands of books and essays about this matters, and nothing is new that we can consider or remember the last book about figurative Renaissance is Rebirths of Panofsky(1892-1968), that is the attests the medieval origin of Renaissance, regard to figurative arts, in sculpture above all. The literature about this cultural movement is concentrated above all about the development to literature, that is true, at last in Italy, of reuse of ancient literature, beyond the language, the Latin, that was natural, then, to culture men and very much monks and priests, in Roman curia it was the official language, and in Jesuitical order until 50 years ago the official language was the Latin, also in the daily life. A question yet never treated, the ask is: “Why the literature first and after the art?”, because the Roman and Greek art, or classic sculpture was present in Rome, above all, therefore this discrepancy could not be, but it there is, why? The first motive is merely material, this is the manuscripts copied in librarians, because the librarians there were and were kept, although attended very scant persons, these held much manuscripts, among the Roman poetries and Roman historic men; the humanistic culture was kept above all in convents and aristocratic families, where was taught the Latin language, and thereupon the transmission of literature was very easy, hence the Renaissance is birth thank the classical culture? No certainly, because during the Renaissance the Latin was spook as the Middle age, but because in arts is so late the rebirth? Simple because the figurative canon, beginning from the costumers, doesn’t want it, because they didn’t recognized each other to imagine that has had a different style; the faithful recognizes each other to an imagine if it corresponds to his culture, and the imagine must be equal to his expectation, to a Muslim of Lutheran pray in front of image is unthinkable because they are aniconic, the protestant church or mosques are without imagines; the painting art, in Italy, has development with Giotto(1267-1337), in sculpture with Nicola Pisano(1220-1284); when Giotto frescoed the superior basilica of Assisi, Italy, principal Franciscan church, and the costumers accepted these new style, it is meaningful because the costumers has changed the preference, because the medieval word was changed, and together also the men, that now accepted will the change, also regard the imagines, because it didn’t scare, also if different from usually canon; thereby Giotto was a man whose generation felt the change and translated it in painting, as Dante Alighieri(1265-1321), contemporary of Giotto has brought this change to poetry; therefore the Renaissance is born in Middle age, and it is normal, but is born from Giotto and Dante generation, why? Because the think and the rationality was changed, it was a silent revolution, and generational, this is the tradition was by now past, thereby we must go ahead; proof of this think is the frescos of Giotto that are again where was frescoed and the Divine Comedy, after seventh centuries we read. The Renaissance has been a generational development, this is evolution of with.

Alessandro Lusana