Europe Vocabulary Flashcards
Renaissance
Derived from the French word meaning ‘rebirth’.
Milan
A common Slavic male name and, less commonly, an Roman and Indian name.
Venice
A city in northeastern Italy and the capital of the Veneto region.
Florence
An English given name for girls.
Rome
The name Rome is a Biblical baby name. In Biblical the meaning of the name Rome is: Strength, power’.
Medici Family
The richest family in the world and still is too.
Humanism
An outlook or system of thought attaching prime importance to human rather than divine or supernatural matters.
Machiavelli
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
German printer who was the first in Europe to print using movable type and the first to use a press.
Erasmus
Beloved
William Shakespeare
An English poet, playwright, and actor, widely regarded as the greatest writer in the English language and the world’s pre-eminent dramatist.
Sir Thomas More
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
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
An Early Netherlandish painter active in Bruges and one of the most significant Northern Renaissance artists of the 15th century.
Albert Durer
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. It has been particularly associated with the teachings of St. Augustine of Hippo and of Calvin.
Reformation
The action or process of reforming an institution or practice.
