Europe Flashcards
Renaissance
The Renaissance is a period in European history, from the 14th to the 17th century, regarded as the cultural bridge between the Middle Ages and modern history.
Milan
A powerful city, particularly from the 13th to the 15th centuries, Milan is today a leading financial and commercial center. Italian name Milano.
Venice
a city in northeastern Italy, on a lagoon of the Adriatic Sea, capital of Venetia region; pop. 270,098 (2008).
Florence
Florence was a leading center of the Italian Renaissance, especially under the rule of the Medici family during the 15th century. Italian name Firenze.
Rome
Rome was made capital of a unified Italy in 1871. Italian name Roma.
Medici Family
was an outstanding patron of learning and the arts, whose clients included Michelangelo and Botticelli.
humanism
Humanism is a philosophical and ethical stance that emphasizes the value and agency of human beings, individually and collectively, and generally prefers critical thinking and evidence
Machiavelli
Machiavellianism is “the employment of cunning and duplicity in statecraft or in general conduct”.
Perspective
the art of drawing solid objects on a two-dimensional surface so as to give the right impression of their height, width, depth, and position in relation to each other when viewed from a particular point
Gutenberg
Johannes ca 1390–1468 Ger. inventor of printing from movable type.
Erasmus
was a Dutch Renaissance humanist, Catholic priest, social critic, teacher, and theologian.
William Shakespeare
was an English poet, playwright, and actor, widely regarded as the greatest writer in the English language and the world’s pre-eminent dramatist.
Sin 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
was an Italian sculptor, painter, architect, and poet of the High Renaissance who exerted an unparalleled influence on the development of Western art.
John Van Eyck
was an Early Netherlandish painter active in Bruges and one of the most significant Northern Renaissance artists of the 15th century.
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 act of gratifying or yielding to a wish
Predestination
is the doctrine that all events have been willed by God, usually with reference to the eventual fate of the individual soul.
Reformation
a 16th-century movement for the reform of abuses in the Roman Catholic Church ending in the establishment of the Reformed and Protestant Churches.
Martin Luther
was a German professor of theology, composer, priest, monk[2] and a seminal figure in the Protestant Reformation.
Henry VIII
was King of England from 21 April 1509 until his death. He was the first English King of Ireland, and continued the nominal claim by English monarchs to the Kingdom of France.
John Calvin
was an influential French theologian and pastor during the Protestant Reformation.
