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a style of decorative art characterized by fanciful or fantastic human and animal forms often interwoven with foliage or similar figures that may distort the natural into absurdity, ugliness, or caricature

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Grotesques

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relating to, or using the language of ordinary speech rather than formal writing or relating to the common style of a particular time, place, or group

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Vernaculars

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What appealed to ancient Romans and were revived in Italy at the end of the fifteenth century

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Grotesques

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Who was the first humanist

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Petrarch

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What are the three parallels in three consecutive by Girolamo Tirabochichapters

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Discovery of books
discovery of antiquity
discovery of america

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Who established a network of schools in the cities of the Netherlands

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Brethren of Common Life

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Three key issues related to republics as understood by Machiavelli

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Liberty
Virtue
Corruption

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Three types of places that were most receptive to Renaissance ideas

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Chanceries
Universities
Courts

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Three ways Renaissance authors transformed medieval romances to satisfy critics

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Modernize
Classicize
Parody

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Who was a mediator between Italy and the rest of Europe

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Avignon, France

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11
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Who do we associate with scholastism

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Thomas Aquinas

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What was an important for the formation of the visual as for the literary canon

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Print

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What was the official version, a major defeat for the project of a return ‘to the sources’

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Vulgate

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What was an office concerned with the dispatch, receipts and filing of letters, was a place in which humanists had an opportunity to put their ideas into practice, since letters in classical Latin were becoming a way for government to impress its rivals.

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Chancery

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who was one Petrarch’s hero’s?

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Cicero

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a philosopher who wrote letters

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Cicero

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17
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Who helped pave the way for the Renaissance

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Petrarch

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Where did the Renaissance start

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Florence, Italy

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What spread quickly through Europe

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Printing Press

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5 subjects that were generally considered to form part of the humanitites

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Ethics
Poetry
History
Rhetoric
Grammar
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What did Cicero call humanist

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studia humanitatis

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Who said “Since it is the characteristic of man to be taught and the learned are more human than the unlearned, the ancients appropriately referred to learning as humanitas

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Salutati

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Who declared that emulations should always be joined to imitation

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Bembo

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the European country least receptive to the Renaissance`

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Russia

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Why was Russia the least receptive European country to the Renaissance

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The Russians were not centered around Rome like the rest of the European Renaissance was but was centered around Constantinople

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Who was the German painter who went to study Venice twice

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Albrecht Dṻrer

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Who is known as, ‘renowned above other masters in the art of painting’

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Albrecht Dṻrer

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Who was responsible for the Duomo

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Brunelleschi

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Who competed for the Baptistery doors in Florence

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Brunelleschi
&
Ghiberti

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Who was the Architect for the Foundling Hospital, Pazzi Chapel, church of San Lorenzo and the Church of Santo Spirito

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Brunelleschi

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Who was called ingenious or a visionary (in a video)

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Brunelleschi

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Who was admired morea s an inventorthan as an artist

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Brunelleschi

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Who viewed Brunelleschi not as the creator of a new style but as a brilliant technician who had solved the problem of designing the dome of the cathedral of Florence

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Alberti

34
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What is one of the largest masonry domes ever constructed

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Dome of the Cathedral of Florence

35
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Who were nicknamed the treasure hunters

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Donatello
&
Brunelleschi

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What was the first nude figure since antiquity

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Donatello’s David

37
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Who created the famous “Gattamelata” at Padua

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Donatello

38
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What is the “Gattamelata” at Padua

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Equestrian statue of a professional soldier

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Who won the contest for the Baptistery Doors

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Ghiberti

40
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Who created a new style of pictorial narrative and this new style was partly based on the classical sculpture seen at Pisa

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Giotto

41
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Who was called the Apelles of our time

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Hans Holbein

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Who was the painter of the Last Supper

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Leonardo Da Vinci

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Who were commissioned to decorate the hall of the Great council with scenes glorifying past Florentine victories

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Leonardo Da Vinci
&
Michelangelo

44
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What art is often thought to be a personification of the republic

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Michelangelo’s David

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Who was sometimes described as the equivalent of Dante

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Giotto

46
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What time period was also a time of increasing enthusiasm for ancient sculpture

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Rebirth

47
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What does Gothic mean

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completely lacking in style

48
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What painting is more widely familiar in its engraved version than in its original

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The Last Supper

49
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Who made paintings of Venus and Lucretia

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Lukas Cranach

50
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Who was praised for his skilful ‘imitation of reality’

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Masaccio

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Who painted Tribute Money in the church of the Carmine

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Masaccio

52
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Who was one of the first people to see the Lacoon emulated it in a number of his works

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Michelangelo

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Who painted in the Sistine Chapel

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Michelangelo

54
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Who made the dream of emulating and surpassing antiquity to come true? (three people

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Raphael
Castiglione
Navagero

55
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High Renaissance owes its name not only to the heights of achievement by three people but also to the emphasis on what Vasari and others called the ‘high style’

who are these three people

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Leonardo da Vinci
Raphael
Michelangelo

56
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Who painted the School of Athens

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Raphael

57
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Who saw themself as a grammarian fighting the barbarians

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Antonio de Nebrija

58
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Who led a team of scholars and supported by Cardinal Jimenez de Cisneros edited a polyglot Bible, juxtaposing Hebrew, Aramaic, Greek and Latin texts.

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Antonio de Nebrija

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Who combined the roles of scholar and writer in the vernacular

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Boccaccio

60
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Who was the chancellor of the Florentine republic for more than thirty years

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Coluccio Salutati

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Who continued the work of Petrarch

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Coluccio Salutati

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Who wrote the Divine Comedy

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Dante

63
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What is an epic poem that is widely considered the preeminent work of Italian literature…a poem about the after life

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Divine Comedy

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Who has been considered as the one taking to Italy the learning which others have been accustomed to bring back from that country

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Erasmus

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Who was concerned with the need to ‘drink from the fountain of a purified Aristotle’… in other words to study the texts of the master in the original Greek

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Jacques Lefevre d’Etaples

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Who was called humanista theologizans

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Jacques Lefevre d’Etaples

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Who was a German humanist and a scholar of Greek and Hebrew. For much of his life, he was the real centre of all Greek and Hebrew teaching in Germany.

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Johan Reuchlin

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as an English scholar, Renaissance humanist, theologian, and Dean of St. Paul’s Cathedral, London and wanted people to see the scripture as their guide through life.

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John Colet

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Who is best known for his textual analysis that proved that the Donation of Constantine was a forgery

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Lorenzo Valla

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Who is known for the Orlando Furioso

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Ludovico Ariosto

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What is a long, epic-style romance written in verse at the beginning of the 16th century.

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Orlando Furioso

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Who is considered Portugal’s and the Portuguese language’s greatest poet. His mastery of verse has been compared to that of Shakespeare, Vondel, Homer, Virgil and Dante. He wrote a considerable amount of lyrical poetry and drama but is best remembered for his epic work Os Lusíadas

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Luis de Camões

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Who was a Spanish novelist, poet, and playwright. His magnum opus, Don Quixote, considered to be the first modern European novel,[2] is a classic of Western literature, and is regarded amongst the best works of fiction ever written

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Miguel de Cervantes

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Who wrote the Prince and Discourses

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Niccolo Machiavelli

75
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Who was a Renaissance mathematician and astronomer who formulated a heliocentric model of the universe which placed the Sun, rather than the Earth, at the center.

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Nicolas Copernicus

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Who was an English poet, playwright and actor, widely regarded as the greatest writer in the English language and the world’s pre-eminent dramatist. He is often called England’s national poet and the “Bard of Avon”.

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William Shakespeare

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