Humanism and the arts

• example of a school based on humanist principles

  St Paul's School
• who was St Paul's school founded by

  John Colet
• where did Colet appoint governors from

  a city guild not clergy
• who was appointed the head of St Paul's School

  William Lily, a humanist
• which schools adopted a platonist education

  St Paul's

  Magdalen College School, Oxford
• examples of councillors founding schools

  Cardinal (later Christ Church) college, oxford founded by Wolsey

  Corpus Christi, Oxford, founded 1517 by Richard Fox

  St John's Cambridge, 1511 by Margaret Beaufort
• how many times did Erasmus visit England

  4
• when was Erasmus' longest stay

  1509-14
• who was Erasmus appointed

  first professor of Greek at Cambridge
• who published a Greek translation of the New Testament

  Erasmus
• when did Erasmus publish a Latin translation of New Testament

  1516
• who was Erasmus friends with

  More and Fisher
• when and why did More support Erasmus

  1518

  when controversy over Greek New Testament led some professors to condemn the study of Greek
• name a humanist tutor who tutored Ed VI

  John Cheke
• Henry commissioned an Italian sculptor to produce the tombs of his parents and grandmother, Margaret Beaufort in which style and where

  Renaissance

  Lady Chapel in Westminster (H7 commissioned this is in perpendicular gothic style)
• who were the dominant painters at H8's court

  painters from the 'northern Renaissance' - German Hans Holbein

  Flemish Lucas Horenbout (best paid)
• describe tapestries

  Flemish in origin, chivalric themes of medieval culture
• describe H8's building style compared to Wolsey's

  more conservative

  Nonsuch palace suggests his gothic taste

  Wolsey's Hampton Court showed a more classical influence
• church music was...

  Flemish
• Italian renaissance ideas were more fashionable but England's main cultural links reflected...

  the commercial ties that existed between England and the Low Countries