Chapter 9 Flashcards
Renaissance
The humanistic revival of classical art, architecture, literature, and learning that originated in Italy
Milan
A city in Italy
Venice
City in northeastern Italy
Florence
City in central Italy on the Arno River
Rome
Capital of Italy, largest city in the country, and seat of the Roman Catholic Church
Medici
A powerful Italian family of bankers and merchants
Humanism
an outlook or system of thought attaching prime importance to human rather than divine or supernatural matters.
Machiavelli
being or acting in accordance with the principles of government
Perspective
the art of drawing solid objects on a two-dimensional surface so as to give the right impression
Gutenburg
German printer who was the first in Europe to print using movable type and the first to use a press (1400-1468)
Erasmus
The Erasmus Programme (European Region Action Scheme for the Mobility of University Students)
William Shakespeare
An English playwright and poet of the late sixteenth and early seventeenth centuries, generally considered the greatest writer in English.
Sir Thomas More
venerated by Roman Catholics as Saint Thomas More, was an English lawyer, social philosopher, author, statesman and noted Renaissance humanist.
Flemish
the Dutch language as spoken in Flanders, one of the two official languages of Belgium.
Michelangelo
1475–1564, Italian sculptor, painter, architect, and poet.
John-van-eyck
was an Early Netherlandish painter active in Bruges
Albert Durer
was a painter, printmaker, and theorist of the German Renaissance.
Fresco
a painting done rapidly in watercolor on wet plaster on a wall or ceiling, so that the colors penetrate the plaster and become fixed as it dries.
Indulgences
the action or fact of indulging.
Predestination
the divine foreordaining of all that will happen, especially with regard to the salvation of some and not others.
Reformation
the action or process of reforming an institution or practice.
Martin Luther
A sixteenth-century German religious leader; the founder of Protestantism.
Henry 8
A king of England in the early sixteenth century.
John Calvin
French theologian and reformer in Switzerland: leader in the Protestant Reformation.
Huguenots
French Protestant of the 16th–17th centuries. Largely Calvinist, the Huguenots suffered severe persecution at the hands of the Catholic majority, and many thousands emigrated from France.
