People Of The Renaissance Flashcards
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Florence ruler/patron
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Cosimo De Medici
- head of banking fam
- opened 1st public library
- opened Platonic Acadamy
- patron of artists, inventors, architects(Brunelleschi)
- used money to elect friends to parliament
- kept Florence in peace
2
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Painter in Italy
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Leonardo da Vinci
- 1452-1519
- painted Mona Lisa, The Last Supper,
- duke of Sforza(war machines)
- King of France, three years, died
3
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2nd Florence patron
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Lorenzo de Medici
- took over family business aged 20
- patron to DaVinci and Michelangelo
- athlete, poet and patron => Lorenzo The Magnificent
4
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Renaissance painter outside of Italy
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Pieter Brueghel
- 1525-1569 (approx)
- master painter
- told morals of lost faith in humanity/peasants
- painted scenery
- died aged 44/43
5
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Underrated Renaisance painter
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Raphael Sanzio
- 1483-1520
- studied da Vinci’s painting in Florence
- painted Alba Madonna and School Of Athens
- 1508, Pope Julius sponsored him to paint on his library wall
6
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Renaissance sculpture
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Michelangelo Buanarotti
- 1475-1564
- Apprenticed 13y/o, sponsored by Lorenzo de Medicci
- went to Rome, cardinal-funded Pieta
- Florence beat France, Michelangelo won competition with 5m talk David statue
- Pope Julius II -paint Sistine chapel (4 years, 300+ figures)The Last Judgement on wall
- Finished St,Peters basilica
- died 89, never married
7
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Renaissance architect
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Fillippo Brunelleschi
- 1377-1446
- trained as goldsmith
- studied Roman ruins, eg. pantheon
- designed the dome
- 16 years in Florence Cathedral
8
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William Shakespeare
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- 1564-1616
- 18, married Anne Hathaway, moved to London
- “Kings Men” company, Globe Theater (2000)
- 38 plays
- 150+ sonnets
9
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Galen
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- Greek doctor
- blood burns in body, liver remakes it
- many theories wrong, medieval doctors believed him
10
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Andrea Vesalius
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- Brussels 1514-1564
- professor of Anatomy , Pauda University @ 23
- publicly dissected stolen bodies
- wrote “On The Fabric Of The Human Body”
11
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William Harvey
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- 1578-1657
- Proved circulation, heart pumps blood
- Showed to King Charles I
12
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Nicholas Copernicus
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- 1473-1543
- polish priest
- used maths to prove earth revolved around sun
- didn’t have telescope to prove it
13
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Galileo Galilei
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- 1564-1642
- Developed+Tested “Law of Falling Bodies”
- Made Lippershey’s telescope x32 stronger
- released ‘The dialogue’ ( earth revolves around sun)
- tried in Rome
- agreed he was wrong, forbidden to write his ideas
14
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Hans Lippershey
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- Invented the telescope in 1608
- Dutch
15
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Artemisia Gentileschi
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- 1593-1653
- Italian
- painted women, forbidden to study male body
