7 - Italian Renaissance Flashcards
In music history, period of the tremendous flowering of music in the 14th century, particularly in France
ars nova
Black Death
The great epidemic of a disease thought to be bubonic plague, which killed a large proportion of the population of Europe in the mid 14th century. It originated in central Asia and China and spread rapidly through Europe, carried by the fleas of black rats, reaching England in 1348 and killing between one third and one half of the population in a matter of months.
The treatment of light and shade in drawing and painting; an effect of contrasted light and shadow.
chiaroscuro
System of government in which a monarch shares power with a constitutionally organized government. The monarch may be the de facto head of state or a purely ceremonial leader. The constitution allocates the rest of the government’s power to the legislature and judiciary.
constitutional monarchy
dance of death
A medieval allegorical representation in which a personified Death leads all types of people to the grave, intended to emphasize the equality of all before death.
Astronomical theories of the universe having or representing the earth as the center, such as in the astronomical systems of Aristotle and Ptolemy.
geocentrism
The breach between the Eastern and the Western Churches, traditionally dated to 1054 and becoming final in 1472. Roman Catholic church, the period from 1378 to 1417, when there were two, and later three, rival popes, each with his own following.
Great Schism
Theories of the universe having or representing the sun as at the center, such as the astronomical system of Coperincus. The accepted astronomical model of the solar system.
heliocentric
Renaissance humanism
northern Italy during the 14th century and later spread through Europe; turned away from medieval scholasticism and revived interest in ancient Greek and Roman thought; devotion to the humanities and literary culture. a doctrine, attitude, or way of life centered on human interests or values; rejects supernaturalism and stresses an individual’s dignity and worth and capacity for self-realization through reason.
A means of depicting objects in space in a way that closely approximates the real appearance of the world by means of converging horizontal lines to a vanishing point
linear perspective
In music, a secular part song originating in Italy, for several unaccompanied voices. In literature, a medieval short lyrical poem specifically about love. Common in the Renaissance.
madrigal
A charter of liberties to which the English barons forced King John to give his assent in June 1215 at Runnymede; a document constituting a fundamental guarantee of rights and privileges.neo
Magna Carta
A philosophical system developed in the 3rd century AD by Plotinus and his successors, based on Platonism modified to accord with Aristotelian, post-Aristotelian, and eastern conceptions, and posits a single source from which all existence emanates and with which an individual soul can be mystically united. It was predominant in pagan Europe until the 6th century, and was a major influence on early Christian writers, and on later medieval and Renaissance thought, and on Islamic philosophy.
neoplatonism
picture plane
In perspective painting or drawing, the imaginary plane corresponding to the surface of a picture, perpendicular to the viewer’s line of sight.
In literature, a fixed verse form of Italian origin comprising fourteen lines usually of five-foot iambics rhyming according to a prescribed scheme.
sonnet
