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C.17 People Flashcards

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de Medicis

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bankers throughout Italy;
influenced political leader through loans;
big time patrons

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Baldassare Castiglione

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wrote The Courtier;

tells how to become Renaissance Man

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Isabella d’Este

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one of the few women patrons

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Leonardo da Vinci

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Renaissance man;
painter, sculptor, inventor, scientist;
Mona Lisa;
Last Supper

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Raphael Sanzio

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perspective - advanced realism;

School of Athens;

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Sofonisba Anguissola

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first woman artist to gain international fame

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Artemisia Gentileschi

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strong, heroic women

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Francisco Petrarch

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poet;

one of early/influential humanists

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Giovanni Boccaccio

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Decameron;

realistic, off-color stories

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Niccolò Machiavelli

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The Prince;
selfish;
corrupt;
not moral, politically effective

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Vittoria Colonna

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poet;

helped publish The Courtier

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Dürer

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woodcuts/engravings;

coat of arms

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Holbein the Younger

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detailed portraiture

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Jan van Eyck

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oil painting;

Arnolfini Portrait

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Desiderius Erasmus

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Christian humanist;
The Praise of Folly;
everyone should study the bible

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Thomas Holland

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Christian humanist;

Utopia

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Christine de Pizan

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writer;
advocated for women’s education;
one of first women scholars;
wrote The Book of the City of Ladies (1405)

18
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Shakespeare

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viewed human nature;

Elizabethan Age

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Johann Gutenberg

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innovator/inventor;

printing press

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Johann Tetzel

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1517;

selling indulgences

21
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Martin Luther

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the 95 Theses;

began Reformation

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Pope Leo X

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excommunicated Luther

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Charles V

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Emperor of Rome;

declared him outlaw and heretic

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Henry VIII

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wanted a son;
Reformation Parliament;
many wives before son

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Queen Elizabeth I

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brings back Protestant faith to England;

creates Anglican church as compromise to Protestants and Catholics

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John Calvin

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Institutes of the Christian Religion;
predestination;
leads Reformation in Geneva;
Calvinism

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John Knox

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Presbyterians

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Katherina von Bora

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Luther’s wife;

argued w/ him about women’s equal role

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Marguerite of Navarre

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protected Calvin from being executed

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Ignatius of Loyola

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founded Society of Jesus

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Pope Paul III

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Inquisition;
approved Jesuits;
council of cardinals (Trent)

32
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Pope Paul IV

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carried out Council of Trent’s decrees

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Michelangelo Buonarroti

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Renaissance man;
painter, sculptor, architect, poet;
realistically portrayed human body;
statue of David, Sistine Chapel, dome of St. Peter’s

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