The Renaissance

Question 1

What was the Italian Renaissance?

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The renaissance means rebirth and was a time of the rise of portraits and autobiography for individualisms.
Personality,unique talent,fame,glory, and virtu

Question 2

What was humanism?

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Study of greek and roman literature,rhetoric and history

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What was secularism

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Separation of church from other institutions.
Places humans beings not
god as the center of attention in life

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What was education like in the renaissance?

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Opened universities to study human nature and skills. Teach future business, political, military leaders to become persuasive speakers/writers.
Secondary schools taught roman history, greek philosophy, latin grammar and rhetoric. only for nobles

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Petrarch

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Classical scholar, writer, father of humanism, as shown through his letters,poetry, and collections.

Called medieval years the dark ages.
rediscovered classical texts from ancient greece and rome

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Lorenzo Valla

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linguistic analysis of donation of Constantine to find forgery.

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Leonardo Bruni

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First modern historian

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Marsilio Ficino

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Translated texts of Plato, Aristotle, and other ancient Greek Philosophers.

Argued for immortality of the soul.

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Pico della Mirandola

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Oration in the dignity of man, celebration of human potential for greatness

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Niccolo Machiavelli

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Wrote the prince to advise on the ruthless statecraft needed to unite his war torn and divided Italian homeland.

Ruthless pragmatic: The end justifies the means “machiavellian”

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Baldassare Castiglione

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Wrote upper class men and women should become accomplished courtiers.

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Isabella d’Este

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most famous renaissance woman boen to the ferrara family and married the ruler of mantua.
Art patron who collected from greatest renaissance artists

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What was special about Italian Renaissance Art?

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Art commissioned by catholic church, guilds, wealthy, families like the medici.

Perspective illusion of two dimensional surface, a window to the world, foundation of painting for next 500 years.

Chiaroscuro realistic blending of light and shade to model forms. artist create paintings in which real people occupy real space.

Pyramid configuration
three dimensional pyramid configuration to create symmetrical and balance compositions

christian subjects, classical forms. inspired by greek and roman statues revive standards of beauty. Classical forms + christian subjects.

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Michelanglo

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David, condtrapposto like greece and re and sistine chapel ceiling.

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raphael

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school of athens, gathering of ancient philosophers from different eras. order, unity, symmetry

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Donatello

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donatellos david

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Leon Battista Alberti

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3 dimensional space and perspective.

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Flippp Brunelleschi

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roman engineering principles to create The Dome of florence cathedral

Florence symbol of power, ingenuity, peity

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Leonardo Da Vinci

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mona lisa, diagrams of the human body, and the renaissance man

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Eramus

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prince of the humanists. Most influential northern renaissance humanist.
Praise of folly- satire that poked fun at greedy merchants, pompous priests, scholars, immortality, and hypocrisy of pope Julius ll.

Question 21

Northern Renaissance

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occurred in europe north of the alps. Germany, France, England, and Netherlands

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christian humanists

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combine classical ideas of calmness and stoicism with christian ideas of piety, humility , and love

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thomas moore

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humanist scholar of england
lawyer, author, statements, lord chancellor, under Henry the Eight.
wrote utopia which is a novel describing an imaginary society, located off the mainland new world.

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Jan van eyck

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flemish artists, pioneer of oil painting
Ghent altarpiece and the Arnolfini wedding

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albrecht durer

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woodcuts and self portraits

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guilds

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Florence’ and other Italian cities were home for power worker guilds. Master craftsmen in woodwork, metals, leather, gold, and other form of craftsmanship. jewelry, textiles, etc.

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trade in the renaissance

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spices, animals, and crafts were traded to and from major italian ports

access to africa, mediterranean sea and the atlantc.

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influence in banking

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medici family
became the powerful italian banking industry.

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hanseatic league

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created banks all along trade routes in europe.

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johannes gutenberg

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created the printing press

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moveable type

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working on replacing wood with metal and printing blocks with each letter, creating the european version of moveable type.

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Henry VII

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began Tudor dynasty. created star chamber as political weapon to put nobles on trial.

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henry viii

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act of supremacy: declare the king the supreme head of the catholic church of england. Anglican church: new christian religion.

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charles vii

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concluded hundred year warranty by driving England out of france

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city states

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during renaissance, Italy was under a collection of city states with their own ruler.

Governed by princes

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Ferdinand and Isabella

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marriage united aragon and castille royal houses

Question 37

spanish inquisition

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1492: expelled all practicing jews from spain.

1502: all muslims (moors) adopt christianity or leave spain.