The Renaissance Flashcards

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Renaissance is Italian for

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Rebirth

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Year

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1400-1600

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What is The Renaissance

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The birth of the idea of artistic, intellectual, individual, achievement of mankind equals humanism

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What is humanism?

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The study of classic ancient Greek and Roman works

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Where is the Renaissance?

When

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Begins in Florence Italy and spreads to all of Europe

Late 1300s to 1600s

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Why in Europe?

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The black plague equals location for trade especially because of the downfall of the ottoman empire

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What is the result of the bubonic plague?

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the result of the bubonic plague is that increase social mobility

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What is social mobility

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Being able to move up and down in a social class

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What is the Renaissance remembered for?

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Artistic and literary achievements

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Artists of the Renaissance

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Raphael
Michaelangelo
Da Vinci

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How were michaelangelo and da van I able to get an exact replica of peoples muscles in their art?

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They dissected cadavers

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Early writers:

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Dante Alighieri
Petrarch
Machiavelli

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Niccolo Machivalli 
Year
What kind of writer
What’s his most famous work and year 
He is a.... which is.....
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1469-1527
Humanist writer
The prince in 1513
Diplomat=someone in gov’t who negotiates with other countries

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Early writers:
Where was Machiavellian and Alighieri from? Where was Petrarch from?
Where was Shakespeare and Chaurce from?

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Italy

England

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The Renaissance is the expression of___

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Humanistic thought

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What comes out of the Renaissance?

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Masterpieces in art and literature which is still known today

17
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What are some famous works by Da Vinci

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Mona Lisa

The last supper

18
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What is Michelangelo know for

A

Carved the David

Painted the Sistine chapel in rome

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What was Raphael known for

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Frescoes in Vatican Palace which reveal a world of balance harmony and order the underlying principles of art of classically green and Rome

20
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Petrarch became one of the earliest___

What are his famous works?

A

Renaissance poets

Trionfi and II Canzoniere

21
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Aligheiri is a ___

What are his famous works?

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Italian poet

The Divine Comedy