Renaissance Flashcards
Heliocentric
Means Suns in the middle and earth moves around
Geocentric
Means the earth is in the middle
Council of-
Trent
Galileo
Wanted to be a monk, made the telescope, church wanted him to stop teaching about heliocentric
Heretic
Some one who goes against the church
Renaissance means
Rebirth
What are the 5 characters of the Renaissance?
- 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
Niccolo Machiavelli
- wrote the prince
- acquire and keep political power
- thought humans were self-centered
Baldassare castiglione
-the book of the courtier
I deal Renaissance noble
What is the ideal Renaissance noble?
Military and physical exercise
- classically educated and pursue the art
Petrarch
- a poet
- father of humanism- study of the Ancient Greek and roman and classics
Vernacular-
Common language
Dante-
The inferno
Geoffry chaucer
The Canterbury tales
Christine de Pizan
The city of ladies
Leonardo da Vinci
- perfected realism art
- ideal Renaissance man (painter, sculptor, architect, inventor and mathematician)
Raphael
- ideal beauty that surpassed nature
- madonnas and frescoes
Michelangelo
- accomplished painter, sculptor, and architect
- Sistine chapel and pieta
Brudalestice dome
The first Dome in western Italy
The david
The naked guy (flourence Italy)
Christianity
Protestant
Catholic
Orthodox
Reform
To make changes in order to improve
Protest
Statement or action expressing disapproval of or objective to something
Martin Luther
Starts in Germany
- 15-1560
Began selling indulgences
Define Renaissance
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
How did Western Europeans gain access to Arab and Greek works
Southern Italy was wrested from the Byzantine and Sicily and Toledo from the Muslims in the eleventh century
Describe the institution of the university. How did it arise, and in what ways was it similar to or different from Islamic madrasa?
Degree granting corporations some of the first universities were started by student ms others were founded as guilds
Analyze the role the Medici played in Renaissance Florence?
Famous for its patronage of the arts. Design and financing the skillful over creerer. Controlled Florence through much of renaissance.
Define secularism and evaluate how it was important in the Renaissance?
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
Giotto
Had more natural and human portraits with emotions of grief and love viewers could identify
DaVinci
Used oil paints for his famous Mona Lisa. Renaissance artists were masters of many media
Durer
Classical motifs (math, perspective, idea proportion)
Machiavelli
Was made chancellor of the lower branch of the florentine republic however when exiled wrote many books essays and plays
Boccacci
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
Jan VanEyck
Painter mixed his pigments with lines sed oil in place of the diluted egg yolk. Which was quickly copied
Brunelleschi
One of the fore most architects and engineers credited with inventing one-point linear perspective
Sir Thomas More
English humanists and states men exemplifies the political and spiritual of the reformation
How did Erasmus was important to both the Renaissance and the reformation
He worked for years as an editor and proof reading for the great Italian scholar printer aldo manuzio
