2019-04-12T16:06:07+03:00[Europe/Moscow] en true Dante Alighieri, Florence, humanism, Il Duomo, Last Supper, Leonardo da Vinci, Machiavelli, Medici family, Michelangelo, Mona Lisa, Petrarch, Raphael, Renaissance, Sistine Chapel, The Divine Comedy, The Prince, vernacular, patron, Inventions of the Renaissance Era, Leonardo da Vinci, Humanists, Erasmus, Renaissance Man, Leonardo da Vinci, Machiavelli, Renaissance art characteristics, Secularism, Indulgences and purgatory, Greece and Rome shaped ideas about ___________, Medici Family, Renaissance Artists, Renaissance Authors, Renaissance Patrons, The Creation of Adam, Johannes Gutenberg and the printing press, Gutenberg Bible, Renaissance, Perspective, Sfumato, Printing Press, Erasmus, Johanne Gutenberg, Erasmus, classical, Florence, Brunelleschi flashcards
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  • Dante Alighieri
    Italian poet and Renaissance writer. His greatest work is The Divine Comedy.
  • Florence
    Italy's leading cultural center during Renaissance; important for trade and commerce;dominated by the Medici family
  • humanism
    A Renaissance intellectual movement in which thinkers studied classical texts and focused on human potential and achievements
  • Il Duomo
    Became a symbol of the city of Florence, as well as one of the finest examples of Renaissance architecture and engineering
  • Last Supper
    Leonardo da Vinci's masterpiece depicting the final meal that Jesus shared with his disciples
  • Leonardo da Vinci
    A well known Italian Renaissance artist, architect, musician, mathematician, engineer, and scientist. Known for the Mona Lisa.
  • Machiavelli
    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."
  • Medici family
    A family, made wealthy by starting a banking industry in Florence, who were major patrons to the arts during the renaissance.
  • Michelangelo
    (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.
  • Mona Lisa
    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.
  • Petrarch
    (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.
  • Raphael
    (1483-1520) Italian Renaissance painter; he painted frescoes, his most famous being The School of Athens.
  • Renaissance
    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.
  • Sistine Chapel
    The chapel of the official residence of the pope in the Vatican; the ceiling was painted by Michelangelo
  • The Divine Comedy
    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.
  • The Prince
    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."
  • vernacular
    Everyday language of ordinary people. During the Renaissance, literature began to be published in this kind of language.
  • patron
    Financial supporter of the arts
  • Inventions of the Renaissance Era
    clock, watch, printing press, rudder, match
  • Leonardo da Vinci
    Perspective, sfumato, dimension were all attributes of my art.
  • Humanists
    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.
  • Erasmus
    Thought all people should be able to read the bible.
  • Renaissance Man
    a person with many talents or areas of knowledge.
  • Leonardo da Vinci
    "THE" Renaissance Man
  • Machiavelli
    ....."a Prince ought to be both loved and feared...but feared .if one should be wanting".....
  • Renaissance art characteristics
    Naturalism
  • Secularism
    A doctrine that rejects religion and religious considerations, ie; WORDLY VALUES
  • Indulgences and purgatory
    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
  • Greece and Rome shaped ideas about ___________
    The Renaissance
  • Medici Family
    powerful banking family who ruled Florence in the 1400s, patrons of the arts
  • Renaissance Artists
    da Vinci, di Buonarroti Simoni, Raphael, and Sandro Botticelliwere are all famous
  • Renaissance Authors
    Shakespeare, Erasmus, Dante, Machaevelli
  • Renaissance Patrons
    Medici Family
  • The Creation of Adam
    Famous painting by Michelangelo of the biblical story of the beginning of man.
  • Johannes Gutenberg and the printing press
    Printing Press
  • Gutenberg Bible
    the first full-sized book printed with movable type and a printing press
  • Renaissance
    "rebirth"; following the Middle Ages, a movement that centered on the revival of interest in the classical learning of Greece and Rome
  • Perspective
    a method of showing a three-dimensional scene on a flat surface so that it looks real
  • Sfumato
    Italian for "smoky", technique used to blend details to look more realistic
  • Printing Press
    15th century invention which revolutionized the ability to print information which in turn affected the speed of the spread of information itself.
  • Erasmus
    The Praise of Folly
  • Johanne Gutenberg
    German printer, he developed a printing press that used movable type
  • Erasmus
    Dutch priest, he published In Praise of Folly in which he criticized corrupt clergy, which helped to inspire the Protestant Reformation
  • classical
    referring to the cultures of ancient Greece or Rome
  • Florence
    a city in the Tuscany region of northern Italy that was the center of the Italian Renaissance
  • Brunelleschi
    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