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A Case of Cultural Hybridity: The European Renaissance

The Renaissance used to be regarded as the replacement of one system of ideas and literary and visual conventions (let’s call it the ‘Gothic’) with another system (the ‘Classical’). However, at a time of increasing cultural hybridity, our own time, it has become increasingly obvious that Gothic and Classical coexisted for a long time, indeed that they interacted, producing hybrid forms of thought, art, literature and especially architecture. As the Renaissance movement spread outside Italy, different local traditions made thein contribution to the mix. In this lecture I shall begin with Italy, move on to other parts of Europe, from Portugal to the Ukraine, and end in Asia and South America, focussing on architecture because for various reasons, buildings are especially likely to take hybrid forms.Přednáška se uskuteční v pátek 5. 4. 2013 od 9:45 hodin v posluchárně č. 3 (Křížkovského 14, 1. patro).

The Renaissance used to be regarded as the replacement of one system of ideas and literary and visual conventions (let’s call it the ‘Gothic’) with another system (the ‘Classical’). However, at a time of increasing cultural hybridity, our own time, it has become increasingly obvious that Gothic and Classical coexisted for a long time, indeed that they interacted, producing hybrid forms of thought, art, literature and especially architecture. As the Renaissance movement spread outside Italy, different local traditions made thein contribution to the mix. In this lecture I shall begin with Italy, move on to other parts of Europe, from Portugal to the Ukraine, and end in Asia and South America, focussing on architecture because for various reasons, buildings are especially likely to take hybrid forms.

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