Duecento
Duecento is the name of the 13th century in the Italian language. It is related to the culture of the Pre-Renaissance in Italy.
Characteristics
The Duecento is considered the century before the beginning of the Italian Renaissance cultural movement in the Trecento. It is sometimes called Early Proto-Renaissance.
One of the most important centres of art and architecture in this period is Florence, a political, economical and cultural pole of Italy. Other important cities were Pisa, Siena, Arezzo, Mantua and Perugia, all of them in the area of Tuscany.
In the Duecento Italy developed the music of the so-called Trovatori, including Sordello of Mantua. From them later developed the classical music of the Italian Renaissance.
The main personalities in this century were: Dante Alighieri (considered the "father" of the Italian language); Guittone d'Arezzo; Cimabue; Giotto di Bondone; Guido da Siena; Nicola Pisano; Arnolfo di Cambio and others. Giotto, who was an Italian painter and architect from Florence, is generally thought of as the first in a line of great artists of the Italian Renaissance that stretched until Leonardo da Vinci and Michelangelo.
During the Duecento the religious figure of Saint Francis of Assisi dominated the Italian souls. His poem Canticle of the Sun is considered a precursor of Renaissance poetry [1]
Duecento Media
Mongol Emperor Genghis Khan whose conquests created the largest contiguous empire in history
Eastern Hemisphere in 1200 AD
A page of the Italian Fibonacci's Liber Abaci from the Biblioteca Nazionale di Firenze showing the Fibonacci sequence with the position in the sequence labeled in Roman numerals and the value in Arabic-Hindu numerals.
Portrait of the Chinese Zen Buddhist Wuzhun Shifan, painted in 1238, Song dynasty.
Mongol Empire in 1227 at Genghis Khan's death
The opening page of one of Ibn al-Nafis' medical works. This is probably a copy made in India during the 17th or 18th century.
Hommage of Edward I (kneeling), to the Philippe le Bel (seated). As duke of Aquitaine, Edward was a vassal to the French king.
Alai Gate and Qutub Minar were built during the Mamluk and Khalji dynasties of the Delhi Sultanate.
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Notes
- ↑ "Canticle of the Sun". Archived from the original on 2010-11-22. Retrieved 2013-04-26.
Bibliography
- Eugenio Garin. Medioevo e Rinascimento. Studi e ricerche Laterza. Milano, 2005.
- Luiz C. Marques, La peinture du Duecento en Italie centrale. Picard, 1987