Flashcards: Renaissance

Italian poet and Renaissance writer. His greatest work is The Divine Comedy.

Italy's leading cultural center during Renaissance; important for trade and commerce;dominated by the Medici family

A Renaissance intellectual movement in which thinkers studied classical texts and focused on human potential and achievements

Became a symbol of the city of Florence, as well as one of the finest examples of Renaissance architecture and engineering

Leonardo da Vinci's masterpiece depicting the final meal that Jesus shared with his disciples

A well known Italian Renaissance artist, architect, musician, mathematician, engineer, and scientist. Known for the Mona Lisa.

Renaissance writer; formerly a politician, wrote The Prince, a work on ethics and government, describing how rulers maintain power by methods that ignore right or wrong; accepted the philosophy that "the end justifies the means."

A family, made wealthy by starting a banking industry in Florence, who were major patrons to the arts during the renaissance.

(1475-1564) Italian sculptor, painter, poet, engineer, and architect. Famous works include the mural on the ceiling of the Sistine Chapel, and the sculpture of the biblical character David.

A painting by Leonardo da Vinci of a woman with a mysterious smile. It is now of the most readily recognized paintings in the world.

(1304-1374) Father of humanism. He believed the first two centuries of the Roman Empire to represent the peak in the development of human civilization.

(1483-1520) Italian Renaissance painter; he painted frescoes, his most famous being The School of Athens.

A period of intense artistic and intellectual activity, said to be a 'rebirth' of classical culture. Usually divided into an Italian period, from roughly the mid-fourteenth to mid-fifteenth century, and a Northern period, 1400-1600.

The chapel of the official residence of the pope in the Vatican; the ceiling was painted by Michelangelo

Written by Dante Alighieri between 1308 and his death in 1321, it is widely considered the central epic poem of Italian literature, and one of the greatest of world literature.

A book wrote by Niccolo Machiavelli in 1513 about the imperfect conduct of humans and how ruler should attain and maintain power. Source of the idea "the end justifies the means."

Everyday language of ordinary people. During the Renaissance, literature began to be published in this kind of language.

Financial supporter of the arts

clock, watch, printing press, rudder, match

Perspective, sfumato, dimension were all attributes of my art.

European scholars, writers, and teachers associated with the study of the humanities (grammar, rhetoric, poetry, history, languages, and moral philosophy), influential in the fifteenth century and later. They sought to find the balance between religion and intellect.

Thought all people should be able to read the bible.

a person with many talents or areas of knowledge.

"THE" Renaissance Man

....."a Prince ought to be both loved and feared...but feared .if one should be wanting".....

Naturalism

A doctrine that rejects religion and religious considerations, ie; WORDLY VALUES

Those who were not baptized but did not deserve hell (dead babies) or simply didn't deserve heaven either went here (Limbo). By giving money to the Catholic Church, you could get time off for dead relatives. This was one of Martin Luther's complaints, since it was kind of a scam.--ie;paying for salvation

The Renaissance

powerful banking family who ruled Florence in the 1400s, patrons of the arts

da Vinci, di Buonarroti Simoni, Raphael, and Sandro Botticelliwere are all famous

Shakespeare, Erasmus, Dante, Machaevelli

Medici Family

Famous painting by Michelangelo of the biblical story of the beginning of man.

Printing Press

the first full-sized book printed with movable type and a printing press

"rebirth"; following the Middle Ages, a movement that centered on the revival of interest in the classical learning of Greece and Rome

a method of showing a three-dimensional scene on a flat surface so that it looks real

Italian for "smoky", technique used to blend details to look more realistic

15th century invention which revolutionized the ability to print information which in turn affected the speed of the spread of information itself.

The Praise of Folly

German printer, he developed a printing press that used movable type

Dutch priest, he published In Praise of Folly in which he criticized corrupt clergy, which helped to inspire the Protestant Reformation

referring to the cultures of ancient Greece or Rome

a city in the Tuscany region of northern Italy that was the center of the Italian Renaissance

A piece of architectural design that was the first modern dome. It created the following new features, Elevated center held by "ribs" to support the weight, Classical columns from ancient times, Rounded Arches, coffered ceilings, and human, not divine expectations for building