European Renaissance people to know Flashcards
Petrarch
First humanist
Niccolo Machiavelli
Famous political thinker, and author of the Prince a message to rulers
Medici Family
Rich merchant family that was a patron of many artists
Dante Alighieri
Author the trilogy of the divine comedy (ends happily)
- individualism: he came back from his journey to hell proclaiming that he was a hero
- approached a medieval topic as a humanist
- He pushed for authors to use Vernacular languages (languages the common people speak)
Chaucer
Author of the Canterbury Tales in English
Some characters tells his tale in a medieval chivalric way, but others in a more secular way.
Transition figure
Erasmus of Rotterdam
Author of In Praise of Folly
He questions things, makes fun of religious figures, not afraid to push against the influence of the church.
Castiglione
Writes the book of the Courtier.
Being a gentleman becomes more popular than following the code of chivalry.
- appreciation of the arts
- poetry
- Dancing (very important)
Giotto
Transitional painter, started painting in 3-D, utilized emotion
Life of the Virgin
Life of St. Francis
Life of St. John the Baptist
Masaccio
Mastered problems of perspective, naturalism of the human body, modeling figures in light in shade rather than lines
The first to paint nude paintings, died in debt because people thought his paintings lacked elegance
Tribute money
Trinity
St. Peter
Botticelli
Embraced the abandonment of techniques of straightforward representation of people and objects
Blended Christain faith and Pagan mythology
Birth of Venus
Judith and Holofernes
St. Sebastian
Donatello
Produced freestanding statues based on the stability of the human body
Filippo Brunelleschi
started the trend of Roman-inspired architecture
constructed the uncompleted dome of the cathedral of Florence, the first dome since Roman times
Leonardo Da Vinci
talented in many different subjects
many projects were never finished
master at soft modeling in light and shade
had a deep psychological insight into human nature
Adoration of the Magi
The Last Supper
The Mona Lisa
Raphael
Inspired by Leonardo and Michelangelo
known for Madonnas with downcast eyes
School of Athens
Michelangelo
Painted the ceiling of the Sistine Chapel
Greatest sculptor in the Renaissance
Glorification of the human body
Church valued him for art, but not as a person
Ceiling of the Sistine Chapel
Moses
Pieta David
The creation of Adam
