Renaissance Flashcards
What is a patron?
A wealthy merchant or citizen that would sponsor artists mad scholars in their work or research
What are the three defining characteristics of humanism?
Encouraged or question conventional wisdom
Encouraged to be curious/experimentation
Invention encouraged
What three factors played a role of the birth of the renaissance in Italy at the time?
Wealthy patrons
Access to Classic Roman resources
Independent governments not ruled by church
Why was early renaissance music primarily written for vocal choirs
The church was paying for it- composer’s only source of income
Why did music in the later renaissance change to more instrumental?
Patrons became a new source of income for composers
The term renaissance
Rebirth or revival
Renaissance spanned between what centuries?
14th and 17th
Type of flag flown horizontally from end of a spear is called a:
Pennon
Renaissance started in _____ and worked its way through____
Florence
North and east
Flags were used as a way to _____ communicate
Visually
What does the color green symbolize In a renaissance flag
Peace and freedom
Man is center of his own universe theory
Humanism
Difference between flag and banner
Flag flies horizontally a banner is hung from top
Artist and scholar who made machines and studied human anatomy
Leonardo de Vinci
How did Leonardo DV learn about human anatomy
He preformed autopsies