The Renaissance !!!! Flashcards

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When did it begin

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It begun I ad1400

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What is the Renaissance

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It’s a time when people began to see their world in a different way and was inspired by interest in acumient Greece and rome

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What is humanism

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Its when humans were put and the centre of everythibg

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Where did it start and why

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It started in Italy because of rich Italian merchants contact with other cultures and independent city starmtes

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What’s a patron

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A patron is a person who commissions an artist to produce a work of art

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Who were 2 important partons

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Cosmos de’medici and lorenzo de’Midici

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What was the role of a women

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Mitski was to be a good mother and housekeeper

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What r visual arts

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They re arts that we appreciate through sight

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What’s anatomy

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It’s the study of the human body

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What’s perspective

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It’s when adding depth to a picture

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What’s sfumato

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When artishmts used tiny brush strokes to blend areas and avoid hard outlins

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What’s a canvas

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It’s a cloth made from sails and it makes a good surface for painting

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What’s a portrait

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It’s a picture of a real person

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What’s a fresco

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It’s a picture painted straight onto a wall or celing and is applied to wet plaster

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When was leonardo da Vinci born

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In 1452 and died in 1519

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What’s symmetry?

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Its is where 2 sides or parts are even or balanced

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What did he have an interest in?

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He an an interest iin nature plants and aminals

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Why did he carry a notebooks around? (Leonardo da vinci)

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So he can jot down any ideas he had and he used mirror writing

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What did leonardo invent?

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He invented several weapons of war for sforza

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Who is Pieter bruegel the Elder?

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He was a Belgian artist and was famous for his paintings of scenery and nature (born 1525 died1569

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Who are 3 female artists

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Artemisia Gentileschi
Judith lester
Rachel ruysch

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What is still life?

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It is a painting of an object

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What’s a sculptor

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It’s an artist who makes statues or other sculptures using stone metal or wood

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What is nude

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An artwork of a person who is not wearing clothes

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What’s a pietà

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It’s any artwork showing Mary holding the dead Jesus in her arms

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Sistine chapel?

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Pope julius ll hired Michelangelo to paint frescoes on gr he ceiling of the sistine chapel he worked on them for 4 years and are all life size

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When was Michelangelo born and when did he die

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Born 1475 and died 1564

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What did Michelangelo design

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He designed the great dome of St Peter’s Basilica in rome

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Who is filippo Brunelleschi

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He is a famous architect forn 1277 died 1446 he built the cathedral in florence and it took 16 years to complete

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Who is andrea palladio?

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He is an architect and designed 150 houses and his style was known as palladian