The Renaissance and Reformation Flashcards
Medici
Most powerful Italian family and patron of the arts
Renaissance - humanism
An educational and cultural program based on the study of Ancient Greek and roman literature
Petrarch
Father of humanism.
Revival of classics
Pico Della Mirandola
Wrote oration of dignity of man.
Free will.
Castiglione
The book of the courtier.
Ideal ruler - renaissance man.
Popular handbook
Machiavelli - the prince
The first major modern political thinker.
A modern secular concept of power politics vs divine law
Boccaccio
Decameron.
Daily life in Italy
Giotto
First major renaissance artist
Brunelleschi
Architecture.
Cathedral done in the Mary of the flower cathedral.
Botticelli
Secular works.
Birth of Venus
Leonardo da Vinci
Sketches.
Mona Lisa.
Michelangelo
David.
Sistine chapel
Raphael
School of Athens
Donatello
First free form bronze and nude since roman times
