Renassiannce Flashcards
Renaissance
Lasted 300 year
3 periods(early,high,late)
A renewed interest+development in art,literature,science, and learning
Means rebirth
Causes of renaissance
-decline of Catholic Church
-rise of secularism(worldly)
-rise of humanism
-reintroduction of the classics(Greek+roman culture)
-movable printing press
Italy+Major city states
Birthplace of renaissance
Venice,Milan,genoa,Florence(center of renaissance)
The church,nobles,merchants, and wealthy family “ruled” the cities
Medici family
Most influential/wealthy family in Florence
Humanism
Intellectual movement of human potential+achievments
People were called humanists
Education was stressed
2 things humanists emphasized
1)individual accomplishments
2)potential of human is limitless
Francesco Petrarch
Father of humanism(writer)
Focus on the worldly rather than spiritual
Religion of humanists
Many rejected religion because of the corruption of the church
Deism-religion of the renaissance(god created us and left us)
What did humanists stress
The idea of universal/renaissance man-person who is self reliant+knowledgeable in all areas
Niccolo Machiavelli
Writer
The prince-rulers guid book
The end justifies the means-even if what you do is immoral
Dante
Writer
Divine Comedy-his journeys of his soul through purgatory(hell+heaven)
Renaissance art
Stressed religious,worldly,and realism(how things should look) themes
New art techniques-perspective(3D),oils paints(more color)
Patrons
Supporter of the artist-money,food,lodging,etc
Leonardo da Vinci
Italian master
Most renown renaissance man(painter,writer,architect,inventor,etc)
Mona Lisa,Last supper
Michelangelo
Italian master
Painter+sculpture
Pieta-sculpture of Christ
David
Creation painting(painting on the ceiling in Sistine chapel)
Raphael
Italian master
Painter
School of Athens-fresco painting of Socrates,plato,and Aristotle
Madonna(mother of Jesus)paintings
Donatello
Italian Master
One of the greatest sculptures(Apostles)
Bramante
Architect
Designed ST peters cathedral
How did the renaissance spread
-trade
-war
-students attending university
Movable printing press
Movable Printing Press
Johannes Gutenberg
Greatest invention of period
Books were massproduced and inexpensive
First publication was a Bible(Gutenberg bible)
Renaissance Writers
Introduced novels(fiction)drama and poetry for the first time
Written in vernacular for the first time-common language of the people
Desiderius Erasmus
Father of Christian humanism
Book-praise of folly
Called for reforms in the corruption of the church
Fanned early flames of the reformation
His works were condemned but the church
Sir Thomas Moore
Utopia-perfect world
William Shakespeare
Greatest playwright
Plays about human emotions
Performed in the globe theater(London)
Romeo and Juliet, Julius Caesar, Hamlet
Results/impacts of the Renaissance
1)works of art/literature
2)scientific revolution-start of modern science
3)enlightenment-question everything
4)reformation
