Part 2 - New Ideas and Advancements Flashcards
Humanism - individual and human society were important
Early Roman and Greek works
Balance between faith and reason
Old Latin manuscripts
Francesco Petrarch
Patron
Financial support to a person
Perspective
A way of showing people and things as they appear in the distance.
Chiaroscuro
It used light and shadows
Fresco
Fresh artists painted on fresh wet plaster
Francesco Petrarch
Humanist scholar that lived in Italy during the 1300s. He studied Roman Writers. Such as Cicero and wrote biography of Roman
Johannes Gutenberg
A printer that developed a printing press that used movable type more and wrote the Gutenberg Bible..
Dante Alighieri
A poet that wrote “The Divine Comedy”
-The Canterbury Tales
Geoffrey Chaucer
An English writer who wrote vernacular literature
William Shakespeare
An English playwright that wrote all kinds of plays historic, comedies and tragedies.
How did Humanism change society?
They made important advances. New forms and styles of literature and art, technological inventions in cartography, engineering, printing, and new theories in science, mathematics, human anatomy, and astronomy
What was the benefit of writing in vernacular?
Many more people could read works written in vernacular. Publication of the Christian Bible in vernacular languages allowed people to read it themselves with depending on the church officials.
What were some of the effects of the printing press?
It held individual carried letters that could be arranged to form words and then quickly use words again. As a result book could be printed by machine rather then slowly written by hand
What important method was developed by Northern Renaissance?
They began painting in oils. It provided richer colors and allowed changes to be made on the canvas
Dante
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