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Chapter 12 Renaissance Flashcards

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giorgo vasari

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  • renaissance
  • artists could exhibit virtu
  • did not exclude when searching for models of talent
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Dominican friar Girolamo Savonarola (1452-1498)

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  • Preached to large crowds in Florence, made predictions that God would punish Italy for corrupt leadership
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Medici family ruled in

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  • Florence, then got kicked out because they were accused of having corrupt leadership
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Italy was

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unorganized

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Francesco Petrarch (1304-1374):

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  • Florentine poet and scholar
  • peak writing was in ancient Rome, believed that a golden age would come about if they returned to peak writing, and he was witnessing that peak writing come back right now
  • father of humanism
  • thought julius caesar’s transformation of Rome from republic -> empire was a betrayal
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Leonardo Bruni (1374-1444)

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  • Humanist historian and Florentine city official
  • Linked the decline of Latin language to the decline of the Roman republic
  • Divided ancient, medieval, modern
  • liked republicanism
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Platonic takes on love

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  • spiritual desire for pure, perfect beauty uncorrupted by bodily desires
  • Best way to learn something was to think about it in its most perfect form
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Giovanni Pico della Mirandola (1463-1494)

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  • Student of Ficino, believed universe was a hierarchy
  • Believed God was at the top, humanity in the middle as the link
  • Was arrested for heresy because of his beliefs of hierarchy, but was let free via Lorenzo de’ Medici
  • Pico followed Savonarola
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Leonardo da Vinci

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  • Wanted to reproduce what the eye could see, drew executed criminals, beauties of nature, studied bodies
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Leon Battista Alberti

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  • Several list of achievements; writes “he” instead of “I” when congratulating himself
  • domestic life for women
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Humanist takes on education (general)

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  • study would help them with growth
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humanist takes on education for women

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  • Wondered whether a program of study that emphasized eloquence and action was proper for women
  • Women were bold in claims about value of new learning
  • Humanist academies were not open to women, but few women became educated themselves
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Baldassare Castiglione

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  • The Courtier (1528)
  • men should fit prerequisites
  • Music, education, order, speaking, math, ride horses, sing
  • Women should be well-educated, be able to paint, dance, play a musical instrument. Should be beautiful and modest
  • Was translated into several European languages, influenced patterns of conduct of elite groups in Renaissance and early modern Europe
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Ideal rulers

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  • difficult to find, humanists looked to the classical past for models
  • educated men in political affairs
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Niccolo Machiaveli (1469-1527)

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  • Most well-known civic humanist and political theorist
  • The Prince (1513), examples of rulers to argue that one should preserve order and security
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Christian humanists

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  • Northern humanists that interpreted Italian ideas about attitudes toward classical antiquity and humanism in terms of their own religious traditions
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Thomas More (1478-1535)

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Utopia (1516)

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Desiderius Erasmus (1466-1536)

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  • In praise of folly – made fun of religious institutions
  • translated new testament to latin
  • criticized the church
  • focused on inner spirituality and morality
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Patronage who

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  • Lorenzo de Medici
  • Pope Julius II (Sistine)
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Giotto (1276-1337) i

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Florentine painter that used realism

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Piero della Francesca (1420-1492) and Andrea Mantegna (1430-1506) i

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Perspective

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Donatello (1386-1466) i

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Sculptor, balance and awareness

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Filippo Brunelleschi (1377-1446) i

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Classical past gave him inspiration for art, balance and harmony

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Northern European art was

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  • more religious
  • portrayed every day life
  • patronage from secular and religious elites
  • printing press was very important
  • less influenced by rome and greece
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Northern European artists

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Rogier van der Weyden and Jan van Eyck

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Albrecht Durer n

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  • northern european rensiassance artist
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titian

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  • mannerism, painting techniques w out elaborate process
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Italian Renaissance was

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  • focused on human forms, symmetry, perspective
  • ninja turtles
  • mythology
  • patronage from the wealthy
  • printing press was not as important
  • rome and greece were crucial
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Most slaves in the 15th century ended up in

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Spain and Portugal

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large scale agricultural slaves didn’t grow until late

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15th century

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Italian nobility in the 15th century

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  • integrated into new social elite of wealth, bought noble titles
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sumptuary laws

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  • merchants were allowed to wear fur, prostitutes had to wear yellow bands etc etc
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Debate about women is in the

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14th century

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Charles VII (French)

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  • revived monarchy in France, reconciled the burgndians and armagnacs
  • taxed lands
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Louis XI (French)

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  • Charles VII’s son
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Louis XII

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  • married Anne of Brittany, added more land
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Concordat of Bologna

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  • pope could take income of newly named bishops in France, Leo X had to recognize French ruler’s right to select said French bishops and abbots
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War of the Roses

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York and Lancaster civil war

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Edward IV

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  • ended war of the roses, defeated lancastrian forces and brought monarchical rule
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Henry VII

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  • court of star chamber used to deal with aristocratic threats
  • expelled nobility
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Spain before the 17th century

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  • not united
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1492

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  • Edict expels all Jews from Spain, Muslims are forcibly baptized
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Why did Jews originally come to Spain?

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  • France and England expelled Jews, they sought refuge in Spain
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14th century anti semitism in Spain

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  • anti jewish preaching

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