Due on Test Day
The Renaissance Terms
These are many of the important terms for the Renaissance unit. Most of these terms will be on the objective test
over this unit. It is in your best interest to define these terms in great detail. Many of the terms will be found in
Chapter 13 of the McKay Textbook and the rest will be in the lecture notes or from outside research. It is not a
good idea to wait until the last minute to work on these terms. No other study guide will be given out for this test.
The test is made up of multiple choice, fill in the blank, and matching. There will not be a word bank on the test
and you will need to be able to spell many of these names on the test.
1. “liberal studies”
2. “new monarchies”
3. Albrecht Durer
4. Avignon
5. Battista Sforza
6. Botticelli’s Primavera
7. Bramante & Saint Peter’s
8. Bruni’s The New Cicero
9. Castiglione, The Courtier
10. Cesare Borgia
11. Christine de Pizan
12. Communes
13. Conciliar Movement
14. Constantinople and 1453
15. Corpus Hermeticum
16. Cosimo d’Medici
17. Donato di Donatello
18. English Peasants’ Revolt
19. Erasmus
20. Estates - First, Second, &
Third
21. Federigo de Montefeltro
22. Ferdinand and Isabella
23. Filippo Brunelleschi
24. Florence
25. Francesco Guicciardini
26. Gabelle
27. Giorgio Vasari
28. Hanseatic League
29. Hermandades
30. Humanism
31. Hundred Years War
32. Individualism
33. Isabella d’Este
34. Isotta Nogarola
35. Ivan III
36. Jacob Burckhardt
37. Jan Hus
38. Jan van Eyck
39. John Wycliffe
40. Justices of the Peace
41. Laura Cereta
42. Leo X
43. Leonardo da Vinci
44. Lollards
45. Lorenzo de’Medici
46. Lorenzo Valla
47. Louis XI the Spider and
Henry VII
48. Machiavelli, The Prince
49. Madrigals
50. Marsilio Finco
51. Masaccio
52. Michelangelo
53. Neoplatonism
54. New Christians
55. Northern Renaissance
56. Oligarchies
57. Peace of Lodi
58. Perspective
59. Petrarch
60. Pico della Mirandola’s
Oration
61. Pius II’s Execrabilis
62. Popolo
63. Pragmatic Sanction of
Bourges
64. Princely courts
65. Printing press
66. Raphael
67. Renaissance
68. Republic
69. Royal council
70. Savonarola
71. Secularism
72. Signori
73. Sir Thomas More, Utopia
74. Slavery
75. Spanish Inquisition
76. Star Chamber
77. The Habsburgs
78. The Papal States
Bonus Terms
1. Papal states
2. Commenda system
3. Condotierri
4. Charles VIII
5. Civic humanism
6. Boccaccio The Decameron
7. Latin Vulgate
8. John Gutenberg
9. Virtu
10. Pope Alexander VI
11. Chiaroscuro
12. Stylized faces
13. Sfumato
14. Contrapposto
15. Greek temple
architecture
16. Brunelleschi, Il Duomo
17. Lorenzo Ghiberti, “gates
of hell”
18. Bramante
19. Mannerism
20. El Greco
21. Northern Renaissance
22. High Renaissance
23. Jacques Leferve
24. Flemish style
25. Peter Brueghel, the elder
26. Albrecht Durer
27. Hans Holbein, the
Younger
28. Fugger family
29. Artemesia Gentilleschi