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Rise Of The Renaissance Flashcards

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What does renaissance means?

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Re birth
Humanism re born
Re born
1440- 1600
They wanted to re born the things they lost in the fall of rome
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What happen in the 1440 year?

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Printed press was invented

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What happen before the renaissance?

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The feudalism notices Half of the population was dead
They try different ways , the invention of machines ( devoloping machines that can make labor efficient) that is when the renaissance began

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Whatnis the biggest value in the renaissance?

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Reading, writing and education

The printing press

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The renaissance created the terms…

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Middle ages
Dark age
Etc…

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The renaissance focus on?

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Rediscover Classical humanism, but within a Christian context (focus On site spiritual ways)

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They changed the greek time…

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As the roman classical christian style

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What is the roman classical christian style example?

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Moses

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What are the characteristics of Moses

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  • Zeus as Moses
  • Physical and psychological patterns of humanism
  • los cuernos
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Moses as Zeus was painted by?

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Michelangelo

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What is Pieta?

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  • Is a statue of the mother Mary with jesus On her legs
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Who did the pieta?

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Michelangelo

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Hat are the characteristics of the pieta?

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The grieving mother of her crucified son

  • pity (lastima) , lamemtation
  • She holds her son as a baby
  • Mary is bigger than Jesus “idealistic” en vez de realista
  • Is about Mary’s emotion
  • Children are supposed to see their parents die
  • In the pieta Mary as a mother sees her son dies
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What are the platonic ideals applied at the pieta?

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  • it looks visually perfect, they were distorted to see perfection
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The artists took credit of their art?

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In the middle ages it was seen bad to put their names in their art because it is supposed to be made by god

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What were the characteristics of David the sculpture by michelangelo?

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  • Nude youthful David as a warrior, with his weapon (slimshot)
  • Rediscovered humanism”
  • Compared to Praxiteles
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Who did Virgin and Child with St. Anne?

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Leonardo Da Vinci

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What are the characteristics of the Firgin and child with St Anne?

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  • Lovimg mother
  • Shows humanity (emotions)
  • Twobabies (John the baptist and Jesus)
  • St. Anne
  • The difference of the Medieval ( Duccio- Madonna majesta ( flat mary with angels))
  • Baby Jesus gives the blessing to John the baptist
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Who was St. Anne?

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Mother of Mary

20
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What were the two examples of pagan forms and ovid myths?

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  • Boticelli - Birth of Venus (sirena)

- Boticelli - Venus and Mars

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What were the new techniques and media in the renaissance?

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Perspective
Illusion of depth
Oil On canvas
Size perspectivw
The foreshortened form
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What are the advantages of the oil On site canvas?

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Dries extremely slow

Vibrant and bright colors

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What is perspective?

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Is the illusion of depth

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What are the characteristics of the persoective?

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  • objects higher On the picture appear further away

- smalles objects appear further away

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What is the example paintings for the perspective?

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Tintoretto- last supper

Leonardo da vinci - the las supper

26
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What is one of the things to create perspective?

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Fortshortened

27
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What is forshortened?

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  • to reduce/distort (parts of a represented pbject that are not parallel to the picture plane) in order to convey the illusion of depth
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What is the vanishing point?

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Where the parallel lines combine

29
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What is sfumato?

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Is a technique that Da Vinci used that is gradual blending of one area of color into another without a sharp outline (smokey effect)

30
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What are the two examples of the sfumato effect?

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  • Leonardo Da Vinci- Madonna of the Rocks

- Leonardo Da Vinci - Mona lisa

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What are the characteristics of the Northern Renaissance?

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  • Commercial revolution and the development of capitalism ($)
  • Textile trade and rise of me (what things are worth example)
  • Capital wealth over land- based wealth and the decline of feudalism
  • New Christianity
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What is capitalism?

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System based On $

Fluid and dynamic

33
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Who were the people in charge of capitalism?

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Merchants

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Who were the merchants?

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  • People who made their living through commerce and trade
  • They made things, sold things, market things.
  • They were not in the prestigious class, but they were wealthy
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What are the two examples of merchant paintings?

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  • Gossaert - Portrait of a merchant

- Mestsys - The moneylender and his wife

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What were the characteristics of the merchant paintings?

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  • there is money wealth
  • Coins
  • ## Scale
37
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What is the split of the catholic church in the renaissance?

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  • The reformation and the rejection of Catholic monopoly of faith (protestant)
  • Split of the church
38
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What does luther posts?

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95 theses of debate

- 95 things he wants to change in the church from that they created the protestants

39
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Who is a protestant?

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  • Protestant is who practices christianity, but is not a catholic
40
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What are the characteristics of the protestants?

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  • Humble
  • Individual conscience
  • Direct/personal relationship with God
  • Vernacular bibles advanced by the printing press
41
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What are the examples of the protestant paintings?

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  • Bruegel- The Wedding fest
  • Bruegel - Hunters in the snow
  • Sluter - Moses
42
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What are the characteristics of the Bruegel- the wedding fest?

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  • Live a humble life
  • Happens at the same time as capitalism
  • Is not in a palace is in a barn
  • The groom serves the meal
  • The food is not royal
  • Everything is humble
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What are the characteristics of the Sluter- Moses?

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  • Protestant of the north did it
  • Humble
  • has the horns or the tablets
  • in comparison of Moses the zeus from the south by michelangelo

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