Renaissance Flashcards
The most important period of development that has ever occured in European history known primarily for its impact in the art world. Period between 14th and 17th century
Renaissance period
Initialy expressed by a cultural and philosophical movement called….
Refer to the method of educating and mode of inquiry that began in northern Italy before spreading to the rest of Europe
Humanism
One of the richest and most important families to come from Florence
Medici family
Great artists
Leonardo da vinci
Michael angelo
Raphael
As viewed as the vitimate renaissance man.
It was given to him as his title because he was said to display curiosity in all areas of advancement within the period
Leonardo da Vinci
The birthplace of renaissance
Florence
Promated the ideas that a man was the center of his universe and people should embrace human achievement in education, classical arts, literature and science
Humanism
Improve communication in Europe
Gutenberg printing press
Italian prainter architect, inventor and the Renaissance man
Leonardo da Vinci
Scholar from Holland who defined the humanist movement in northern Europe
Deciderius Erasmus
French philosopher and mathematicians.. father of modern philosophy
Rene Descartes
Italian astronomers physicist and engineer whose modern pioneering work wth telescope
Galileo Galilei
Mathematics and astronomer who made first modern scientific argument for the concept of a heliocentric solar system
Nicolas Copernicus
English philosopher and author of levithan
Geoffrey Chaucer
Italian painter and architect whose realistic depiction of human emotion influenced generation of artist
Giotto
Italian philosopher poet writer and political thinker who authored the divine comedy
Dante
Italian diplomat and philosopher famous gor writing the prince and the discourse on livy
Niccolo Machiavelli
Italian prainter famous for his portrait of pope paul lll and charles l and his later religious and mythical painting like venus and adonis and metamorphoses
Titian
English composer know for his development of the English madrigal and his religious organ music
William Byrd
English poet and historian who wrote the epic poem paradise lost
John Milton
England national poet and historian and the famous play write all time, celebrate for his sonnets and play like Romeo and Juliet
William Shakespeare
Italian sculpture celebrate for lifelike sculpture like david
Donatello
Italian prainter
Birth of venus
Sandro Botticelli
Italian prainter who learned form da Vinci and Michaelangelo
Raphael
Italian sculpture painter architect
Michaelangelo
A revolutionary movement that cause a split in the Catholic church
Reformation