Chalter 17.1 Birth Of Renaissaince

Question 1

Define the Renaissance

Answer 1

Rebirth: A movement in Italy that caused a explosion of art and literature

Question 2

What 3 advantages did Italy have that allowed the Renaissance to happen

Answer 2

1. Wealthy Merchant class
2. Thriving City- states
3. Classical heritage of Greece and Rome

Question 3

What is a city state

Answer 3

A region with no central government and has a powerful city that controls the region

Question 4

What city state did the Renaissance start in

Answer 4

Florence

Question 5

Why were city states so important

Answer 5

It was a place where merchants could trade and share ideas

Question 6

Why was the Bubonic plague so important

Answer 6

It killed 60% of the population and this opened up new opportunities for people to work and earn money

Question 7

What powerful family filed Florence

Answer 7

The powerful banking Medici family

Question 8

Who were the leaders of the Medici family

Answer 8

Cosmo de Medici and his grandson Loremzo de medici

Question 9

How did the Renaiisance scholars return to the learnings of Greece and Rome ruins

Answer 9

1. Artusans and scholars drew inspiration from the ruins of Greece and Rome
2. Scholars studding Ancient Latin manuscripts
3. Christian scholars in Constantinople fled to Rome with Greek manuscripts after the Turks invaded them in 1453

Question 10

How did the thought of humanism start

Answer 10

Scholars were influenced by the classical ideas of Greece and Rome

Question 11

What is humanism

Answer 11

Intellectual movement that focused on people’s potential and achievements

Question 12

What did humanists study

Answer 12

History, literature and philosophy

Question 13

Who wrote the Courtier and what was it about

Answer 13

Baldassare Castiglione and it was about how to become a Renaisaance man

Question 14

The Renaissance man ?

Answer 14

The perfect and ideal man. He should be charming , educated in the classics, he should dance, sing, write poetry, and be a skilled rider, wrested, and sordsman

Question 15

Who was Michelangelo Buonarroti

Answer 15

He was a sculptor, poet, architect and painter that used a realistic style when depicting the human body

Question 16

Who was Donatello

Answer 16

A sculpture who made sculptures more realistic by carving natural postures and expressions that revealed personality. He a,so made the sculpture if David which was naked

Question 17

Wh was Leonardo Da Vinci

Answer 17

Most important “Renaissance Man”. He was a painter, sculptor, inventor and scientist. He studied how things work like that the moody and muscles. He painted the Mona Lisa

Question 18

Who was Raphael Sanzio

Answer 18

He was a painter that became famous for his use of perspective

Question 19

Who was Dante

Answer 19

Famous writer that write in vernacular, he used his native language

Question 20

Who were Petrarch and Boccaccio and Machiavelli

Answer 20

Petrarch was a poet, he wrote sonnets about a mystical woman named Laura.
Boccaccio was also a writer who write realistic stories about the plague and also used mistakes if humans and humor.
Machiavelli was also a writer and wrote about the imperfect conduct of humans

Question 21

Who was Vitoria Colonna

Answer 21

Famous women poet

Question 22

Who were Anguissola and Gentileschi

Answer 22

Famous women artists
Anguissola was famous were drawing portraits of her sisters and powerful people
Gentileschi- learned from her father and drew portraits of strong woman

Question 23

Date of the Renaisaance

Answer 23

1300-1600