Renaissance

Question 1

Italian City-states

Answer 1

• independent; encouraged exploration
• by late middle ages city-states had become very rich
• merchants and bankers held both political and economic power
• had plenty of time and money to become patrons of art

Question 2

Medici Family

Answer 2

• made money through banking
• richest family in the world
• ruled government through loans

Question 3

Classical Influence

Answer 3

• GREEKS stressed harmony and balance in nature
• ROMANS stressed realism
• RENAISSANCE artists combined both Greek and Roman ideas to create artwork that could be studied from all angles/sides

Question 4

Idealism&raquo_space; Realism

Answer 4

• Renaissance artists tried to show the world realistically
• shadings of dark and light
• rules of perspective, a technique that creates illusions of 3-D
• improved paints; temperas to oils

Question 5

Raphael

Answer 5

• bright
• was the oldest of the three Renaissance painters
• painted in bright colors
• often painted Madonna with baby Jesus

Question 6

Leonardo Da Vinci

Answer 6

• “observed the world around him”
• sketched humans with wings
• dissected human corpses
• only 15 paintings still in existence
• sketched parachute, tank, helicopter, sub, machine gun, and crane (before it existed)
• wrote all of his notes backwards and in Latin so no one could steal his ideas

Question 7

Michelangelo

Answer 7

• sculptor, musician, poet, and architect
• he sculpted statues in a “sense of tension”
• in 1508 Pope Julius II hired him to paint the Sistine Chapel which took just FOUR years

Question 8

Jan Van Eyck

Answer 8

• was from northern Europe

* extreme detail, religious then

Question 9

William Shakespeare

Answer 9

• brought new and vital ideas of literature
• invented hundreds of new words
• explored themes such as jealousy, love, ambition, and greed

Question 10

Niccolo Machiavelli

Answer 10

• wrote “The Prince”
• handbook for rulers of city states
• it recommended a ruler do what they have to do to stay in power
• “the end justifies the means”

Question 11

Printing Press

Answer 11

• Johann Gutenberg (1452) created a movable type printing press
• printed a complete copy of the Gutenberg Bible
• able to print hundreds of copies of books which lowered the cost
• helped spread ideas and culture and increased literacy rates