Italian Renaissance Flashcards
1
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Bifora
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Mullioned window with two “lights”
2
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Early Renaissance (date)
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1400-1500
3
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High Renaissance (date)
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1500-1520
4
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Late Renaissance (date)
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1520-1600
5
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Arno river
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- enabled trade
- WWII destroyed most bridges except Ponte Vecchio
6
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inspiration of Renaissance
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based on classical inspiration, but developed into extreme asthetic originality
7
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values during time
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Class distinctions of the Middle Ages faded and were replaced by individualism.
Intelligence (regardless of class) had the opportunity to gain power
8
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Proportion
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Most important factor taken from antiquity. Everything was measured in human scale.
9
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Art
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- supported by patrons of the arts (instead of churches)
- this allowed artists less stress and more time to create art
10
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Inventions
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- Gun powder
- printing press
- origins of modern science
- perspective (in art)
- Brunelleschi was inventor and first to apply perspective
11
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Leonardo da Vinci
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- military inventions
- painting, engineering, architecture
12
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Michelangelo
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- Sistine chapel ceiling
- David sculpture
13
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Raphael
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- Madonna in the Meadow
14
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Filippo Brunelleschi
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- considered father of renaissance
- trained as goldsmith and sculptor
- father as perspecitve
- created duomo
15
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Duomo
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- Eight dome ribs are repeated on the lantern in the form of fluing buttresses
- Architect Filippo Brunelleschi
- one of the Earliest Renaissance constructions
