Renaissance

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Topography

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Surface features of a region.

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Hinterland

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Area surrounding a city.

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Mercenary soldiers

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Soldiers for hire

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Oligarchy

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Government by a few powerful people

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Florin/ducat

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Gold coins weighing about 3.5 grams

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Pile

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A heavy beam driven upright into the earth to support a structure

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Republic

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A state in which citizens elect representatives to form a government

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To patronize

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To support

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Renaissance man

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A term traditionally used to describe a person skilled in many areas

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Proportion

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A correct relation among parts

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Perspective

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Giving the appearance of distance on a flat surface

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Human anotomy

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The science of the structure of the human body

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Essentric

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Odd, peculiar person

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Blasphemous

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Showing contempt for sacred things

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Fresco

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Painted with water colour on fresh plaster

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Renaissance

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The French word that means reborn

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City-states

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Consists of a city and the rural area immediately surrounding it

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Condotierri

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A leader of mercenary soldiers in Renaissance Italy

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Doge

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Supreme ruler

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Giotto do bondone

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A florentine artist who developed the rule of proportion in paintings so that paintings are “in scale”.

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Filippo Brunelleschi

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A florentine artist who discovered the laws of perspective, which allows artists to add depth in their pictures

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Leonardo da Vinci

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A man who painted and sculpted sculptures. Lived from 1452-1519. He is most famous for the painting of “Mona Lisa”.

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Michelangelo

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Thought himself as a sculptor but also painted, like the fresco painting he did on the ceiling of the Sistine Chapel. But he is most famous for the sculpture that he carved called “David”

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Artimesia Gentileschi

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A renaissance artist born in Naples, 1593. Daughter of the famous painter Orazio Gentileschi. She got fame and independence through art, she painted “Judith slaying Holofernes”

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Johann Gutenberg

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In the middle of the 15th century, Johann Gutenberg, a German, invented the printing press with moveable type. So that printers could produce a thousands of copies of a book much faster.

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Parchment

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A form of paper created from dried lamb skin.

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Mass produce

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A large amount of things getting produced at the same time

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Albrecht Durer

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He used the printing press for both wood-block art and art manuals that popularize the ideas of Italian renaissance.

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Peiter Bruegel

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A painter who painted people in scenes of their everyday life

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Etcher

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An artists who engraved a picture onto a metal plate, and uses this plate as a stamp

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woodcutter

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An artist who carves a picture onto a wood block, and uses this block as a stamp

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Jan Van Eyck

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Inventor of using light and shadow in paintings, began in the 14th century

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Nicolas Copernicus

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From Poland, he was the first scientist to state that the revolutionary theory that the earth is not the centre of the universe by using math to calculate the orbits of the planets around the sun

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Ptolemy

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A Greek astronomer who described the earth at the centre of the universe.

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Galileo Galilei

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He proved that Copernicus was right, and he invented the telescope that made things appear 30x nearer. Born in Piza, Italy, 1556

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Ether

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An extremely pure, refined substance once thought to occupy the upper regions of space

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Inquisition

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A church court that tried heretics, people who disagreed with the church teachings

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Savonarola

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A spellbinding preacher of the Dominican order who dedicated his life to to reform the corruption in the church and society. In 1490

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Petrarch

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An Italian writer and poet, one of the first Humanists. He wanted to make sure the culture of Ancient Rome would continue to delight and inspire future generations. (Posterity) In he late Middle Ages, Italy. Through his efforts, many classical works survived that might have otherwise be lost forever.

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Lorenzo the magnificent

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A patron of art and literature before becoming the absolute ruler of Florence.

Lived from 1449-1492.

Florence Italy

The most famously Medici and held power from 1469-1492.

He used his wealth to increase his popularity by creating a beautiful and a well-run city and by making sure that powerful citizens were either by his side or sent into exile.

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Medieval art

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Darker because the Middle Ages were not as uplifting and happy as the Renaissance.

People thought the feudal period was a dark age of stagnation, and artists didn’t make much money.

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Renaissance art

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More detailed and includes perspective and proportion.

There was more wealthy people who had money to patronize art.

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Florence

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Became rich through the skill of their business people. Made their fortune through cloth trade and controlled the kingdom of Naples. Lage enough to dominate their neighbours. Many famous Renaissance artists lived there. Located in Tuscany, Northwest Italy.