Citation: Timeline of Art History

https://www.metmuseum.org/toah/ht/04/eusb.html

“Following a period of sporadic incursions and large movements of people, demographic and economic changes in the eighth century B.C. lead to overseas colonization, spreading Greek language and culture across the Mediterranean and Black seas.”

This statement alone shows the development and inculcation of the Greek philosophy of humanism. This sculpture alone shows how this sporadic time inculcated this philosophy and in turn changed the image of the body by evolving into realistic pieces of artwork.

Citation: Timeline of Art History

https://www.metmuseum.org/toah/ht/07/euwf.html

“Between 1000 and 1400, the kingdoms of the Franks, divided among many leaders, become the kingdom of France, which emerges under the Capetian dynasty as one of the most prosperous, powerful, and prestigious in Christendom.”

The change of religious state and political state influence the change of realistic and idealistic body images to an abstracted style, retracting to iconographic works similar to Egyptian worship statues. This alone proves that the philosophy returns to a God-centered society, where man is not as important in this time compared to the of the Greek democracy.

Citation: Protestant Reformation

Raphael M. Huber. (1941). Recent Important Literature regarding the Catholic Church during the Late Renaissance Period, 1500-1648. Church History, 10(1), 3-37. Retrieved from http://www.jstor.org/stable/3160724

The reason this article is so important because it speaks of the protestant reform during the Renaissance that can be used against my argument. 

Citation: Secular Government; Man-centered society

Rule by Natural Reason: Late Medieval and early Renaissance conceptions of political corruption. (2012). In Barcham M., Hindess B., & Larmour P. (Eds.), Corruption: Expanding the Focus(pp. 53-72). ANU Press. Retrieved from http://www.jstor.org/stable/j.ctt24hbwc.8

“Conflict over lay investiture and the accompanying charges of simony (the act of buying or selling ecclesiastical benefices or emoluments) led Pope Gregory VII to declare sacerdotal and secular supremacy over all princely sovereignties.” In other words, an argument for a man-centered society rather than God-centered is found in this article. 

Citation: Smarthistory.org/anavysos-kouros/

Dr. Steven Zucker and Dr. Beth Harris, “Anavysos Kouros,” in Smarthistory, December 15, 2015, accessed December 10, 2018, https://smarthistory.org/anavysos-kouros/.

This is the most prominent piece of artwork that began the process into the realistic and idealized human body. The desire to improve began here or is widely known to have started with this art piece.