Early Renaissance

Question 1

the artifacts of human experience- art (paintings, sculpture, architecture) philosophy, history, literature, poetry, and music. the Study of how they relate to one another within a historical time frame

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Humanities

Question 2

15th century (1400s) is considered the time frame for this period

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Early Renaissance

Question 3

Bringing together knowledge, ideals, and practices with Christian society in Literature and Art

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Synthesis

Question 4

This was the Geographical center for the Early Renaissance

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Florence, Italy

Question 5

What is a Humanist

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Focused on what is human (opposed to Christian values)

Question 6

the 3 humanists we discussed in class were

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Dante (Dante’s Inferno)
Petrarch (poet)
Boccaccio (student of Petrarch, wrote the Decameron-no Christian ideas)

Question 7

This document signed by 3 city-states in 1454 created a peace that lasted for 40 years. This period of peace enabled the humanities

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The Peace of Lodi- signed by Milan, Florence, and Venice

Question 8

Bringing together secular ideas from ancient Greece and Rome with sacred ideas and ideas from middle ages- found in architecture, sculpture, fresco-paintings, and literature

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Synthesis

Question 9

Milan, Venice, and Florence all had different Governments- known as

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City-States

Question 10

This technique of painting requires a wall covered in plaster, then a drawing is made on the plaster. Next, the drawing is covered in small amounts of plaster, and then is painted upon. The painting then becomes part of the wall

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Fresco Technique

Question 11

This painting, by artist Botticelli depicts a scene that is completely secular

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La Primavera (Spring)

Question 12

This architect created the dome of the Florence Cathedral- a synthesis of a Roman dome and the vaulted ceiling style of the French

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Brunelleschi

Question 13

This sculptor created the statue of St. Mark-comissoned by the Linen Weavers Guild. His sculpture is visually styled by Roman sculpture

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Donatello

Question 14

This artist developed Linear Perspective- a technique used to create dimensional illusion, seen in his painting the Holy Trinity

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Masaccio

Question 15

This author was a Neoplatonist (new student of Plato’s teachings) proposed that humans have free will, and therefore are able to choose how they live their lives in relation to how close to God they are

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Pico Della Mirandola

Question 16

This term describes something that was life-like, or realistic. Also showing emotions

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verisimilitude

Question 17

This artist focused on verisimilitude- and married Greek and Roman style art with sacred ideas

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Giotto