The Reformation and Renaissance Flashcards
🌟Petrarch
A Florentine who was a humanist, poet, and scholar. He assembled a library of Greek and Roman manuscripts in monasteries and churches
🌟Florence
Located in Italy, it had the richest merchants and bankers I’m Europe. Where the Medici family lived, they were Patrons
Patron
Financial supporter of art
🌟Perspective
The technique of showing a distant object on a flat surface
🌟Leonardo da Vinci
Made the Mona Lisa, the last supper, was considered a genius for his creativity
🌟Michelangelo
Had been a Sculptor, engineer, painter, architect, and poet. Has been called a Melancholy genius. Made the statutes Pieta (Mary holding dying Jesus) and David (Shepard killing Goliath)
🌟Raphael
Is known for his blending of Christian and classical styles. He created the school of Athens painting, which portrayed many brilliant minds including Leonardo and Michelangelo
🌟Niccolo’ Machiavelli
Wrote a guide for rulers on how to gain and maintain power called the Prince
🌟John Gutenberg
Was the first man to have made a complete an edition of a bible using a printing press.
🌟Albrecht Durer
(guy with curly hair that sort of looks like Jesus in his paintings)
Was a pioneer in spreading renaissance ideas through northern europe, did engraving in his artwork.
Vernacular
Everyday language of ordinary people
🌟Erasmus
Priest, made a Greek edition of the bible, wanted the bible translated into Vernacular.
🌟Thomas More
English Humanist ago pressed for social Reform, wrote a book called Utopia that showed where men and women live in peace and harmony
Utopian
The idea of the ideal society
🌟Indulgences
Buying your way into heaven
🌟HRE Charles V
Had tricked Luther into coming to the city of Worms for the diet (assembly of princes), making him think he would be allowed to argue his work but instead tried to make him confess it was all wrong
🌟95 theses
The story Luther posted on the church doors complaining about indulgences and other things
Asburg
The location where the princes supported Luther
Henry VIII
He originally supported the pope and hated Luther, but he broke away from the church to make his own religion. He made himself the head of it, and the entire reason he did it was so he could divorce his wife. Had 6 wives, and translated the bible to English
🌟Humanism
Humanists studied the classical culture of Greece and Rome, but used that study to increase their understanding of their own times
