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