The Renaissance Flashcards
What two factors led to the growth of city states in Italy?
trade and transportation
Though their social rank was earned, who was the most powerful and influential social class?
The merchants
The Renaissance artists looked down on Middle age art and turned their interest to what?
Classic Greek and Roman styles
In what year did Constantinople fall?
1453
Humanists focused on human _______ and _______.
potential and achievements
The basic spirit of the Renaissance was _________, meaning nonreligious.
secular
Secular is concerned with what?
The here and now
Studied how muscles move, studied how veins are arranged in a leaf, and painted “Mona Lisa” & “Last Supper”
Leonardo da Vinci
Was a painter, sculptor, poet, and architect; designed dome at St. Peters Basilica, sculpted the statue “David”, painted the Sistine Chapel ceilings, and filled the Vatican
Michelangelo
To paint the Sistine Chapel, the artist had to lay on his back on ________.
Scaffold
When Renaissance writers started writing, they used the modern language, called what?
Vernacular
This writer started writing in Italian, instead of Latin; His most famous work is the book “Inferno”
Dante
Wrote political book called “The Prince”
Niccolò Machiavelli
Women writers of the Renaissance wrote about what?
personal subjects, not politics
Who worked with Michelangelo to create “Courtier”?
Vittoria Colonna
What factors led to the beginning of the Renaissance in Northern Europe?
- Population was recovering from the plague
- Hundreds Year War finally ended
- Cities were growing rapidly
- City merchants were becoming wealthy
Who invented the Printing Press?
Johann Gutenburg
What was the Printing Press?
a technique of printing from movable blocks of type letters
What did the Printing Press do for the Renaissance?
- Made books cheaper
- Made books more accessible
- Increased literacy
- Spread ideas and learning
produced woodcuts and engravings that showed realism; works showed religious, mythological, and realistic subjects and landscapes
Albrecht Durer
developed new techniques that showed detail with oil based paint; started paintings with 3D aspects of jewelry and clothes
Jan van Eyck
painted scenes of everyday life; paintings taught morals and illustrated proverbs
Pieter Bruegel the Elder
christian humanist that wrote “The Praise of Folly”; believed that Christianity was about the heart and not ceremonies and rules in church
Desiderius Erasmus
thought Christians had mindless rules and were ignorant about the Bible
Desiderius Erasmus
Who wrote “Utopia” and was an English Humanist
Thomas More
Englishman that was a playwright - he wrote plays focused on examining humans flaws and humanity’s potential
William Shakespeare
Shakespearean Theater built in London
The Globe Theater
