Renaissance Vocabulary Flashcards
to patronize
-To support usually through financial means.
Renaissance
- a term meaning “rebirth”
- This refers to an historical period from about 1450 to 1600 in Europe when there was a huge achievement in the arts and sciences.
Cosimo de Medici
- a male head of the Medici family
- who became a wealthy and powerful banker and merchant and took control of Florence.
- He started the Medici tradition of patronizing artists.
Michelangalo
Italian sculptor, painter, architect, poet, and engineer of the High Renaissance
-He exerted an unparalleled influence on the development of Western art.
stagnation
-A sluggish inactive, not progressing
Lorenzo the Magnificent
- Most famous Medici
- became the ruler of Florence after his brother’s tragic death.
- In his reign he sponsored amazing
-artist such as Leonardo da Vinci, Botticelli and others. - He also made Florence a artful city which helped him rule.
Machiavelli
- Niccolo Machiavelli was a diplomat, philosopher and writer.
- He is famous for being allegedly manipulative and deceitful.
florin or ducat
-Gold coins weighing about 3.5 grams.
perspective
-Giving the appearance of distance on a flat surface.
Gutenberg
- (1395 – February 3, 1468)
- was a German blacksmith, goldsmith, printer, and publisher
- who introduced printing to Europe.
- His invention of mechanical movable type printing
Dowry
-Property or money brought by a bride to her husband upon marriage.
Blasphemous
-Showing contempt for sacred things.
Leonardo da Vinci
- One of the first great Renaissance minds to try to learn about the truth of the natural world.
- His areas of expertise are: painter, inventor, engineer and scientist.
assassin
-A murderer of a political important person.
fresco
-Painted with watercolor on fresh wet plaster
Copernicus
- Was a mathematical and astronomer
- that had a theory that the earth goes around the sun instead of the sun going around the earth.
Inquisition
- A church court that tried heretics
- people who disagreed with church teachings.
Humanists
- People concerned with the goals of human beings rather than spiritual matters.
- They believed in the power of reason to find the truth and that people could find their own path to the future without the need for religion.
oligarchy
-government by a few powerful people
hinterland
-Area surrounding a city
Isabella d’Este
- The wife of the Duke of Mantua who often ended up ruling in his absence.
- She was a good ruler and leader of Italian society.
- She also supported the arts.
