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Renaissance Flashcards

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Heliocentric

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Means Suns in the middle and earth moves around

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Geocentric

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Means the earth is in the middle

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Council of-

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Trent

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Galileo

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Wanted to be a monk, made the telescope, church wanted him to stop teaching about heliocentric

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Heretic

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Some one who goes against the church

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Renaissance means

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Rebirth

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What are the 5 characters of the Renaissance?

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  • urban society in Italy
  • secure viewpoint developed
  • age of recovery from the plague, political instability and decline on church power
  • rebirth of interest in Greece and Rome
  • individuality
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Niccolo Machiavelli

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  • wrote the prince
  • acquire and keep political power
  • thought humans were self-centered
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Baldassare castiglione

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-the book of the courtier

I deal Renaissance noble

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What is the ideal Renaissance noble?

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Military and physical exercise

- classically educated and pursue the art

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Petrarch

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  • a poet

- father of humanism- study of the Ancient Greek and roman and classics

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Vernacular-

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Common language

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Dante-

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The inferno

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Geoffry chaucer

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The Canterbury tales

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Christine de Pizan

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The city of ladies

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Leonardo da Vinci

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  • perfected realism art

- ideal Renaissance man (painter, sculptor, architect, inventor and mathematician)

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Raphael

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  • ideal beauty that surpassed nature

- madonnas and frescoes

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Michelangelo

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  • accomplished painter, sculptor, and architect

- Sistine chapel and pieta

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Brudalestice dome

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The first Dome in western Italy

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The david

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The naked guy (flourence Italy)

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Christianity

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Protestant
Catholic
Orthodox

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Reform

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To make changes in order to improve

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Protest

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Statement or action expressing disapproval of or objective to something

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Martin Luther

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Starts in Germany
- 15-1560
Began selling indulgences

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Define Renaissance

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A period of intense artistic and intellectual activity said to be a “rebirth” of Greco-roman culture. Began in northern Italy and spread into Europe

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How did Western Europeans gain access to Arab and Greek works

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Southern Italy was wrested from the Byzantine and Sicily and Toledo from the Muslims in the eleventh century

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Describe the institution of the university. How did it arise, and in what ways was it similar to or different from Islamic madrasa?

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Degree granting corporations some of the first universities were started by student ms others were founded as guilds

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Analyze the role the Medici played in Renaissance Florence?

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Famous for its patronage of the arts. Design and financing the skillful over creerer. Controlled Florence through much of renaissance.

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Define secularism and evaluate how it was important in the Renaissance?

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It’s the principle of the separation of government institution and persons mandated to represent the state from 7 religions allowed to rebel to the church

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Giotto

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Had more natural and human portraits with emotions of grief and love viewers could identify

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DaVinci

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Used oil paints for his famous Mona Lisa. Renaissance artists were masters of many media

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Durer

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Classical motifs (math, perspective, idea proportion)

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Machiavelli

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Was made chancellor of the lower branch of the florentine republic however when exiled wrote many books essays and plays

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Boccacci

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Poet and story teller proclaimed a revival of respect of respect for the classical Greco-Roman tradition which they claimed had been buried under the rubble of Middle Ages

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Jan VanEyck

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Painter mixed his pigments with lines sed oil in place of the diluted egg yolk. Which was quickly copied

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Brunelleschi

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One of the fore most architects and engineers credited with inventing one-point linear perspective

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Sir Thomas More

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English humanists and states men exemplifies the political and spiritual of the reformation

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How did Erasmus was important to both the Renaissance and the reformation

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He worked for years as an editor and proof reading for the great Italian scholar printer aldo manuzio

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