during the renaissance, how did the reformation impact the humanities?

Question

how did the reformation shape music, art, architecture, theater, philosophy, opera and theology?

Answer 1

People no longer felt they had to limit their work to that which the Church would approve of. all bets were off, and all philosophical limits were broken.

for example, art could now show real people, and not just religious figures or people who looked like Greek Gods. Portraits of funny looking people.

Opera could deal with "sinful" themes more directly.

Philosophy was all about humanism and man's existence separate from that of God.

Theology could break away from the control of Rome. Lutheranism and Calvinism came into being.

Answer 2

You need to read a little book entitled THE CULTURAL SIGNIFICANCE OF THE REFORMATION. The author's last name is HOLL.

The Reformation is the most misunderstood period in Western History. It is thought by most that the Reformation started with Martin Luther and he was the only main gun.

Insofar as the arts were concerned, Luther did nothing that great and had little affect on them. However when you get to Huldrych Zwingli, in Zurich, a contemporary of Luther's who was also a reformer, the church had all the art, even the organ, ripped out of it. Much music was still in the Religious sector - just looking at the myriad of pieces written by Bach will tell you that. Martin Luther wrote hymns. Religious art, especially in the North of Europe, dwindled down to nothing, religious scupture did the same. Philosophy started moving towards what would be the enlightenment period. I don't think Opera was a major thing, and, of course, theology exploded with new theological works to back up the new religious ideas.

Answer 3

The Renaissance began in the 1300's in Italy. The Reformation began in 1517, when Martin Luther nailed his 99 theses to the church door in Wittenberg. So music, art, architecture, theater, and philosophy were already affected by the Renaissance for 200 years. The real solidification of the Reformation came in 1530 with the Augsburg Confession of faith by the German princes.

Answer 4

The reformation had a huge impact on the art of the time. It had more of an impact on baroque art though, because the renaissance was ending at the time Luther posted his theses. The main impact was the type of art that was created. Since a lot of the Christian groups did not want religious imagery in their art, there was no need for religious paintings. This meant that a lot of the churches were bare compared to Catholic churches. The Jesuits were one group who did have a lot of religious imagery, because they believed in the cult of saints. Many of their paintings showed images of martyrs and saints, which included a lot of emotional facial expressions. The Dutch resorted to creating genre paintings, which showed every day scenes and still lives.