Renaissance Test Flashcards
Medici family
They were wealthy because of them being bankers. Bankers earn money by interests. From Florence. Un/Officially ruled Florence. Paid artists
Why Ren. Art thrived
Wealthy individuals and Catholic Church
Civic Humanism
Society being great, looking at Greece and Rome if a Civic Humanist
Approximate date of Renaissance
1400-1650
Utopia
No place
Ren applied mainly to..
The wealthy
Was italy unified?
No
Raphael
School of Athens, known for perspective and use of colors
Machiavelli’s main goal
Unify italy and drive out foreign armies
who invented the printing press?
Gutenberg, helped spread ideas
Machiavelli wrote…
The Prince
Da Vinci
Mona Lisa, Last Supper, inventions, science (human body)
Michelangelo
Sistine Chapel, Statue of David
Donatello
OG, worked with metal
Big 3
Da Vinci, Michelangelo, and Raphael. Not Donatello because he came before
City states
Not unified, means they are vulnerable and fight against each other
Erasmus
Erasmus laid the egg that Luther hatched, wrote In “Praise of Folly”, criticized Catholic Church
Thomas More
Wrote “Utopia”, root of all causes: property
Humanism
The potential to be great, study classical text
