module one Flashcards
what were the parts of humanism
spic secularism power individualism classics
who was affected by the renaissance culture
5% of the population
artists
scholars
nobles
serfdom
equivalent to feudalism
marriage
- families needed to give permission to men to marry at 30
- married for economic benefit
- women married in her teens
lorenzo da medici
florence
- lorenzo the magnificent
- wealthy bankers
- commisioned michelangelo
Johannes guttenburg
- came up of the steel letters
- part of the invention of the printing press
- used relief carving (de Vinci, Michelangelo, donatello)
china
- most inventions made the inventions
- they didn’t utilize the technology that they created
- inventions defused to Europe
- they were poor
printing press
- printed 12 copies of the guttenburg bible
- 1454-1456
literacy
- informed citizens
- secret politics of the mind (make opinions before talking to people)
jan van eyck
- used oil paints
- had multiple thin layers to make textures
albrekt durer
- sculpture
- german
- relieve carving
Michelangelo
- commissioned by pope julius the second
- painted the sistine chapel
- david
- contrapasta stance
- 15 to 16 centuries
david
- first was carved in bronze by Donatello (nutella- brown=brown)
- then carved by Michelangelo
fillipo brunelleschi
- architect
- created a dome in florence
- known for use of linear perspective
main concepts of renaissance architecture
- balance
- symmetry
- domes
- columns
- proportions
main concepts of renaissance art (cpr, dbc)
- classical themes (biblical, roman, greek)
- color
- realism
- depth
- balance
- perspective
john wycliff
- opposed papal authority
- john hus was one of his first followers
hansiatic league (HANSA)
- have a monopoly over the baltic maritime trade
- trade agreement with northern european countries (germany to estonia)
northern vs italian
- italians (art focused on the human form) (more secular) (individualism- individual should advance themselves in society as much as they could)
- northern (art was more religious) (each individual should better themselves to help the society)
- both had emphasis on the classics
jacob burkhardt
- coined the term renaissance
- historian
- “rebirth”
ferdinand & isabela (catholic monarchs)
- new monarchs of spain
- married to united argon & castle (1469)
- spain was till not unified
- religion finally unified spain (christianity)
- converted jews & muslims to catholics
- spain’s economy went down the drain
peace of lodi (april 9, 1454)
peace of lodi (april 9, 1454)
- peace agreement between naples, florence, milan
- rise of diplomacy (forced the italian city states to communication) (talk without fighting)
- insured the peace among city states
- set the stage for no wars during the high renaissance
5 italian powers
- venice
- florence
- milan
- naples
- papal states
florence
- inland
- enormous wealth
- merchants & banker
- profits from banking were put straight to the urban industry (growing cities & commissioning art)
- leader in renaissance art (because of the wealth)
- birth place of the renaissance
byzantine empire
- after the fall of the roman empire (1,000 years)
- constanpanople
- eastern part of the romain empire stayed strong (byzantine)
- ottoman turks in 1453
- byzantine empire was the most powerful economic, cultural, & military force in most of its existence
Francesco Petrarch
- father of humanism
- added latin words
- wrote poetry to laura
holy romain empire
-worked off of greek ideas & spread throughout europe
clergy
- church officials
- people who work for the church
- 60% of clergy died because they helped people with the plague
pope julius the second
- the warrior pope
- involved with war & politics
new monarchs
- wanted to centralize power
- england
- henry the seventh
- france
- charles the seventh
chiaroscuro
- created during the renaissance
- form of shading