C.17 People Flashcards
de Medicis
bankers throughout Italy;
influenced political leader through loans;
big time patrons
Baldassare Castiglione
wrote The Courtier;
tells how to become Renaissance Man
Isabella d’Este
one of the few women patrons
Leonardo da Vinci
Renaissance man;
painter, sculptor, inventor, scientist;
Mona Lisa;
Last Supper
Raphael Sanzio
perspective - advanced realism;
School of Athens;
Sofonisba Anguissola
first woman artist to gain international fame
Artemisia Gentileschi
strong, heroic women
Francisco Petrarch
poet;
one of early/influential humanists
Giovanni Boccaccio
Decameron;
realistic, off-color stories
Niccolò Machiavelli
The Prince;
selfish;
corrupt;
not moral, politically effective
Vittoria Colonna
poet;
helped publish The Courtier
Dürer
woodcuts/engravings;
coat of arms
Holbein the Younger
detailed portraiture
Jan van Eyck
oil painting;
Arnolfini Portrait
Desiderius Erasmus
Christian humanist;
The Praise of Folly;
everyone should study the bible
Thomas Holland
Christian humanist;
Utopia
Christine de Pizan
writer;
advocated for women’s education;
one of first women scholars;
wrote The Book of the City of Ladies (1405)
Shakespeare
viewed human nature;
Elizabethan Age
Johann Gutenberg
innovator/inventor;
printing press
Johann Tetzel
1517;
selling indulgences
Martin Luther
the 95 Theses;
began Reformation
Pope Leo X
excommunicated Luther
Charles V
Emperor of Rome;
declared him outlaw and heretic
Henry VIII
wanted a son;
Reformation Parliament;
many wives before son
