The Italian Renaissance Flashcards
What does Renaissance mean?
rebirth
The Florentines created their ideal man?
strong-willed, public-spirited, and versatile
What family was the patron of the arts?
Medici Family
Known as the banker and The Elder?
Cosimo de Medici
Known as IL Magnifico
Lorenzo de Medici
Known as a Dominican friar, preached against the Pope, given political power, then hanged and burned?
Girolamo Savonarola
Amerigo Vespucci, ‘Discovered the new world’
Christopher Columbus
Florentine political philosopher and diplomat. Famous work is The Prince?
Niccolo Machiavelli
Italian physicist, astronomer, father of modern science, improved the telescope, and supported helicentrism?
Galileo Galilei
Italian mathematician and astronomer who was tried by the Inquisition and burned at the stake. Founded guilty of heresy?
Giordano Bruno
The leading artists of the early renaissance period in Florence?
Donatello, Masaccio, Sandro Botticelli.
David (Bronze statue) and Gattamelata (a bronze statue of a rider on a horse) were done by who?
Donatello
The Gattamelata is located where?
Padua in the region of Veneto
Most notable painter of the early Renaissance?
Masaccio
Known for the Birth of Venus and Primavera?
Sandro Botticelli
The High Renaissance’s most famous artists?
Leonardo da Vinci, Michelangelo, Raphael.
Famous for the Last Supper, Mona Lisa, scientist and engineer?
Leonardo da Vinci
Known for David, Moses, and Pieta. Painted the ceiling of the Sistine Chapel and designed the dome of St. Peter’s Basilica.
Michelangelo
Known for the School of Athens
Raphael
Who was the leading architect of the early Renaissance? And his masterpiece was the dome of Santa Maria del Fiore
Filippo Brunelleschi
The leading architects of the 16th century were?
Michelangelo and Palladio
The most prominent architect of the Italian High Renaissance? And Teatro Olimpico and the first covered theatre in Europe?
Andrea Palladio
