Renaissance Flashcards
When did the Renaissance start?
1300
Taboo
A social or religious custom prohibiting or restricting a particular practice or forbidding association with a particular person, place, or thing.
Norm
A decree or standard authoritative that serves to guide, regulate or control certain things that are deemed proper and acceptable by society
Cultural believes
A set of behavioral patterns related to thoughts, manners and actions, which members of society have shared and passed on to succeeding generations
Ways women could be artists
- They were nuns
2. They were born into a family of artists
“The Birth of Venus”
- Botticelli
“Sistine Chapel ceiling”
- Michelangelo
Madonna and Child
“Virgin Mary and baby Jesus”
“The Virgin of Rocks”
- Leonardo da Vinci
Renaissance art
- Natural
- Mathematical precession and balance
- 3D perspective
Illuminated manuscript
A hand-written book with lots of color and an elaborate calligraphy, usually made by nuns and the like during the Middle Ages
The Printing press
The printing press is a device that allows for the mass production of uniform printed matter, mainly text in the form of books, pamphlets and newspapers. It allowed news to spread quicker and was a faster way of communication.
Renaissance
Rebirth
The ‘model’
The renaissance was based off from the Greeks and Romans with its own twists and turns
Dressing
The wealthy probably had a great variety of clothes (in style and fabric), the lower class would have about one or two outfits.
