Renaissance Flashcards
Renaissance; Where did it start? Why did it start there?
Rebirth. Italy because of increase in trade, more cities, crusaders were endanger, surrounded by the ruins of antiquity
Medici Family
Important banking family
Humanism
a Renaissance cultural movement that turned away from medieval scholasticism and revived interest in ancient Greek and Roman thought.
Patron
Someone that supports the arts and has money
Secular
Of the world, more worldly than religiously
Isabella d’Este
one of the leading women of the Italian Renaissance, patron
Baldassare Castiglione
count of Casatico, was an Italian courtier, diplomat, soldier and a prominent Renaissance author.
Perspective
New thing about the renaissance, not focused on religion
Michelangelo Buonarroti
Italian sculptor, painter, architect, poet, and engineer of the High Renaissance who exerted an unparalleled influence on the development of Western art, nudity
Leonardo da Vinci
renaissance man
Raphael
was an Italian painter and architect of the High Renaissance
Francesco Petrarch
Italian scholar and poet in Renaissance Italy, and one of the earliest humanists.
Giovanni Boccaccio
Italian author, poet, correspondent of Petrarch, and important Renaissance humanist. Wrote the Decameron
The Decameron
collection of novellas by the 14th-century Italian author Giovanni Boccaccio.
Machiavelli
“better to be feared than to be loved”
Wrote the Prince
