Test 3 Bold Terms Flashcards
Johannes Gutenberg
German Goldsmith who made printing press (Chapter 9)
linear perspective
method which the lines of an object in a drawing recede to a single vanishing point. Humanist agenda (Chapter 9)
Masaccio
young artist made The tribute Money and Trinity, political figures (Chapter 9)
Renaissance Features (5 big ones)
1)new historical self -consciousness
2)a Humanist outlook
3)an increasingly secular orientation
4) a heightened veneration of human individuality and creativity
5) the advent of the printing press
(Chapter 9)
Trinitity
most important paintings with elements that dominated Italian Renaissance art. Linear perspective, greco-roman elements (Chapter 9)
Annunciation
simple style, Fra Angelico, put figures into architectural setting. enclosed garden (Mary’s virginity) (Chapter 9)
Madonna and Child by Filippo
Virgin with human personality (Chapter 9)
Hundred years’ war
in 1300s & 1400s pitting England against France. French won (Chapter 9)
Duchy of Burgundy
a small region in France that increased in size and became modern day Beligium of wealth that promoted art (Chapter 9)
Books of Hours
Fancy calendars, masterpieces under the Duchy of Burgundy (Chapter 9)
Jan van Eyck
One of the greatest painters in western art who worked fro the Burgundian court in 1425. Strove to portray contemporary life as realistically as possible (Chapter 9)
La contenance Angloise
The English Guise or a sweetness in constant Harmonies (Chapter 9)
Equal-voice polyphony
the 3 parts are equally melodic in character and move at the same rate of speed. single unified personality with all the voices singing the same text and moving together (Chapter 9)
Franco-Flemish
group of composers born and trained in present-day Belgium and northeastern France. Brought about the Renaissance style (Chapter 9)
cantus firmus technique
fixed melody is a existing melody that a composer takes and inserts into another composition (Chapter 9)
sprezzatura
the art of making difficult things look easy (Chapter 10)
Bonfire of the Vanities
A priest named Savonarola gathered up and burned all sinful items (Chapter 10)
Age of Exploration
Columbus first voyage, Magellan’s spanish expedition (Chapter 10)
Henry the Navigator
he set up a trading post in present day Ghana and was seeking a direct sea route to West Africa (Chapter 10)
Bartolomeu Dias
Led a portugeuse expedition that rounded the tip of Africa for the first time (Chapter 10)
Vasco da Gama
Sailed from Lisbon to Africa to India and back. Was a big deal because it stopped Venice’s monopoly of Far east Trade. Shifted European power from the Mediterranean to the Atlantic states (Chapter 10)
Christopher Columbus
wanted to discover and colonize the non-western world (Chapter 10)
John Cabot
Italian who crossed the north Atlantic and landed in Newfoundland (Chapter 10)
Gaspar & Miquel Corte-Real
explored Greenland and Newfoundland (Chapter 10)
Amerigo Vespucci
went to south america several times; first to claim this was a “new world’ and not india (Chapter 10)
Vasco Nunez Balboa
became first European to see Pacific Ocean (Chapter 10)
Ferdinand Magellan
first circumnavigation of the globe (Chapter 10)
Hernana Cortes and Francisco Pizarro
sent to interiors of south, central and north america and defeated several major civilizations. took riches, introduced europe to diseases that killed thousands and replaced indigenous cultures (Chapter 10)
Columbian Exchange
two worlds were linked by sharing exclusive items. Europe brought cattle, horse, and sheep and western hemisphere brought tabacco, maize, and potatoes. (Chapter 10)