Exam 2 Flashcards
Lady with an Ermine
1489, Da Vinci, Humanism
Sistine Madonna
1513, Raphael, high renaissance
Venus of Urbino
1534, Tiziano Vecelli (Titan), high renaissance
Judith Beheading Holofernes
1598, Michaelangelo Merisi (Caravaggio), Baroque
The Arnolfini Portrait
1434, Jan van Eyck, northern renaissance
Feudalism
A combined economic and social system that defined the
Middle Ages.
Individualism
A view that stresses the importance and worth of each person.
Patron
A person who gives money and support to an artist or organization.
Vernacular
The language of ordinary speech rather than formal writing.
Peasants
An unsophisticated country person, or a person considered to be
crude and unlearned.
Protestant
A member of a Christian church that separated from the Catholic
church during the reformation.
Radical
favoring drastic political, economic, or social reforms
Doctrine
a principle, position, or policy taught or advocated, as of a religion
or government.
High Renaissance
A style of art developed in Italy in the late 15th and early
16th centuries, characterized by heroic centralized composition, technical
mastery of drawing and conception, and a mature humanistic content.
Antiquity
Scholars and artists of the Renaissance studying the achievements
of the past to create a glorious future.