Renaissance Flashcards
Where did it start?
Italy
Means?
Rebirth or revival in French
When did it happen?
14th - 16th century
Changes in art?
Paintings more realistic
Fresco - painting on wet plaster
Sfumato - smokiness/blurriness
Changed from tempura to oil paintings
More lifelike
More themes added like nature and landscape
Perspective, depth
Used canvases
Examples of famous paintings?
The Mona Lisa (Leo)
The last supper (Leo)
The last judgement (Michelangelo)
Changes in sculpture?
Realism used
Study of anatomy helped with realism
More themes used
New tools used (chisel and hammer)
Marble was the main material when carving out statues
More feeling and detail on statues
Examples of famous sculptures
The pieta (Mike)
David (Mike)
Changes in architecture
Changed from gothic style to more classical inspire by Ancient Rome
Goth style - pointed windows, flying buttresses, rose windows, pointed doors, pointed arches and spire
Classical - dome, rounded windows, classical column, pediments
St Peter’s basilica is an example of classical architecture designed by Mike he died before it was completed
Example of architecture?
Campidogilo (Mike)
Ptolemy?
Greek scientist and mathematician from Egypt. He believed earth was centre of universe (church supported this)
Copernicus?
Polish monk, mathematician and astronomer, believed the sun was centre of universe and other planets revolves around it
Johannes Kepler?
Proved Copernicus right he proved that the orbit of the planets around the sun were elliptical
Galileo?
Mathematician and physician supported Copernicus theory,brought before the inquisition and accused of heresy had to deny his beliefs and was placed under house arrest
Born 1564 in Pisa
The law of falling bodies
Claimed all objects fell at the same speed (Galileo)
The pendulum clock
Proved that a longer pendulum swing took the same amount of time as a shorted one led to development of pendulum clock (Galileo)
The telescope
Invented by Galileo developed in Flanders magnification of 32 discovered jupiters 4 moons and moons uneven surface
Changes in technology
Changes in literature
Printing press invented (Johann Gutenberg)
First book printed was bible
Books became cheaper and spread the learning of renaissance Italy into Northern Europe
William Shakespeare
Actor and writer
Made: Romeo and Juliet, the merchant of Venice and Julius Caesar
Plays written in the vernacular
Shakespeare wrote 28 plays ( drew on stories form Ancient Rome and Greece)
Work spread fast due to printing press
Characters were realistic and drew on a wide range of emotions
Plays performed in the global theatre
Historically significant because he hugely influenced the English language and made 1700 new words
Leo
Born in the village of Vinci
Apprenticed to master verrocchio
Painted last supper in Milan
Dissected over 30 bodies (he was interested
Died in France in 1519
Used sfumato in Mona Lisa
Historically significant because
He was historically significant because His work as a scientist and inventor was excellent
Michelangelo
Born near Florence 1475
Apprenticed to master Ghirlandaio
Historically significant because he excelled as a sculptor painter and architect
9 paintings 42 sculptures 5 architectures
Sculpted the pieta
Ceiling of the Sistine Chapel (4 years)
Architected the capitone hill
Preferred sculpting to painting
Architecture renaissance significant historic
Many building such as the White House are influenced by classical renaissance architecture
Tourism
The works of art produce during the renaissance created a huge tourist industry (Sistine Chapel has 6mil visits a year)
Reasons why renaissance started in Italy
Ruins of ancient rome
The invention of the printing press
Fall of Constantinople - lots of scholars fled to Italy and brought learnings of Ancient Greece and Rome with them
Wealth and patronage trades
City states produced great works of art
