renaissance Flashcards

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first great sculptor

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donatello

bronze statue of david , triumphant over body of slain goliath

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famous sculptor in italy

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lorenzo ghiberti

worked for 20 years to make 2 pairs of bronze doors for the bapistry at florence

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3
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what did michelangelo make lmao

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  1. Made a statue in ROME called “PIETA”
  2. statue of DAVID AT *FLORENCE *
  3. statue of MOSES

“PIETA” - showing mother mary in a seated posture carrying the body of jeasus across her chest

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literature in italy

writers and their works

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  1. Machiavelli ( political writer ) - the prince
  2. Dante - divine comedy
    3.** Petrarch - father of humanisim - sonnets & lyrics**
  3. boccaccio - decameron - 100 famous short stories
  4. aristo , tasso

dante’s divine comedy is an epic poem on the state of the soul and reveals the religois and social life of the day

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father of humanisim

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petrarch

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father of english poetry

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geoffrey chaucer

canterbury tales

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literature in england

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  1. geoffrey chaucer - canterbury tales
  2. thomas more - utopia
    3.** milton - paradise lost**
  3. edmund smith - faerie queene
  4. francis bacon , william shakespear , ben johnson , marlow
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