Renissance Flashcards
Three gunpowder emperor groups
Ottomans, Safavids, Mughals
Osman
A founding figure of the Ottoman
Janissaries
Children who were taken from non-muslim families who grew into soldiers for the nation
Pashas or Beys
in charge of collecting taxes for the Sultan and keeping the peace
Millet System
A system in place during the Ottoman emperor allowed the people of non-muslim to practice still/do their own thing but had taxes/treated like second hand citizens
Who was the main ethnic group in the Ottoman
the Turks
Ismail
Young boy and leader of the Sunfi Sadavid tribes- Abrhamas other sons- very strict outlook on religious law
Abba
leader of the Safavid-known for religious unity
Barbar
founder of the Mungols
Akbar
Akbar used gunpowder to be able to crush existing forts and ratiforcate new ones
Although Islam had existed in the 8th century the Mughals caused many to convert
Akbar was very religious tolerate allowing Hindus to marry Christians and so on
Akbar supported the arts allowing them to flourish during this time
Rulers after this followed this trend including Janah Shah who commissioned pieces like the Taj Mahal
Aurangzeb
Didn’t do the best job in charge-didn’t approve of other regions caused infighting to occur
When did the Renaissance in Europe take place?
14-15th centuary
What does Renaissance mean?
the rebirth of something valuable
Niccolò Machiavelli
Wrote The Prince big figure in the new ideas around Humantarism big pivotal figure must know
What happened during the Renissance in Italy?(3 thingd)
Econmics began to rise,art,and geography, humanitarism
From this money new art began to flourish
A new scholar type called: humanitarian
Looked at classical texts believed that education could help the whole society not just one person
Italy didn’t really “fit in” with the same ideals as the other groups that went through the Renaissance
Not even a country- disunited city states by themselves
Italy is a cultural powerhouse
Center of media train trade and cultural diffusion
Starts making a lot of money
You need to have large urban centers to promote the arts
Had an ancient Roman emperor who helped with the renaissance
Florence Italy-affluent merchant culture
Economics of Italy:
Supply and demand
More willing to give something to someone if more people are willing to pay for it
Equaliblum the point between supply and demand
You have to guess what the equilibrium point is
Learned that they could buy lots and lots of cinnamon at ten dollars per barrel in the holy land
And then sell it for lots more in Europe ends up making lots of money off of this
People start putting their money in banks
As merchants start making more money they start to spend more money as well
People start buying bigger homes
Start buying furniture for houses
Artists, painters, windows, roof all these people make more money
Middle Ages nobody makes any money off of art
General Qualities of a reniessance include…(4 things)
Increased intrests in ancient skills,art and literture happen, improvement in standard of living, greater access to education in order to help better oneself
Delvolpment of humanitarism
It came from a genuine interest in understanding Greek and Roman writing, not just a move against scholasticism
Contemplative life
Active Life
Education of women
What are the 5 most comman charctistics that go with humanitarism?
Secularism, Individualism, purisit of knowlage, arts, delvolpment of poltics
Dante
One of first humanitarist: considered father of Italian: wrote the divine comdies H:H:P:
Took ideas for his books using classical and relgious themes whatever language people are specking in should be the one writers are writing in: books were the most intresting ones at the time
Vernacular
Whatever the language of the common language happens to be
Geoffery Chaucer
Author of the Canterberry tales humanist
Pertratch
Very popular poet got the patterns from studying greek and roman poetry-FIRST HUMANIST
Castiglione
Wrote the bestselling book of the era: the courtier book about manners
During this time with the boom of wealth many middle class families were moving up needed to know what was excpected of them and what wasn’t
Lorenzo de Medici
BIG DEAL THIS FAM big partron of the arts basically took of Italy
Chaucer
wrote books making fun of people in charge
Machivellio
Wrote book the prince for the Medchi fam: got to be cruel not kind
Michelangelo
Painted the sistene chapel made incredible works of art
3 most important things to think about when looking at art
Subject matter, Style, Technique
Subject Matter includes…
Juedo-Christian, classical, everyday life
Juedo Christian has two main things…
Madonna: Mary holding the baby Jesus
Pieta: Mary holding the dead Jesus
Style includes
Realism, Idealism, Mannerism
Tequnique includes
single point persepctive, Chiaroscuro, Sfumato
Mir Sayyaid Ali
Famous painter for Islam
orginally in the safvaid empieror till kicked out by ishmil than went to Mugal india to teach at an art school
Caligraphy
Well known in Ottoman empieror
Giotto
One of the first painters of the Renissance
Who made the painting the Chess game
Sophenisba Anguissola
Peter Brueghel
Made things like the peasent wedding feast, sufamodo affect, how we learn so much about ordinary humans from belgium
Artemisia Gertileschi
Slain of judth
Rafalea
Made the madonnas eyes going downward
