Unit 1 - Renaissance And Reformation

Question 0

Urban/Rural

Answer 0

Urban: Areas that are densely populated

Rural: Areas with lower populations, and where people are more spread out

Question 1

Humanism

Answer 1

Intellectual movement focusing on human potential and achievement.

Question 2

“The end justifies the means”

Answer 2

You can use immoral methods as long as something good comes out of it.

Question 3

Renaissance architecture

Answer 3

Architecture during the Renaissance, inspired by Greek and Roman styles, emphasis on symmetry, proportion, geometry

Question 4

Movable type

Answer 4

In a printing press, separate piece of type for every letter

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Art patron

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Wealthy people who financially support artists

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Tempura paint

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Permanent paint made with colored pigment and a water-soluble glutinous binder like egg yolk

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Individualism

Answer 7

Placing value on the worth, actions, and accomplishments of an individual.

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The Classics

Answer 8

Ancient Greek and Latin literature and philosophy

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Perspective (in art)

Answer 9

Showing three dimensions on a flat surface

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Sculpture

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Art of making two or three dimensional forms, often by carving stone or wood

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Fresco

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A painting on a wall or ceiling

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Ideal Renaissance Man

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A man in the renaissance who is supposed to master every area of study, like the Classics, Greek and Latin, science, dance, music, poetry, riding, wrestling, and swordsmanship. He should also be charming and witty.

Question 13

Humanities

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Subjects common to classical education, like history, literature and philosophy

Question 14

City-States

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A city that with it’s surrounding territory forms an independent state

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Vanishing point

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A point which parallel lines viewed on perspective seem to meet at

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Madonna

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The Virgin Mary, mother of Christ

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Symbolism

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Using images and indirect suggestion to express ideas and emotions in art or literature

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Florence

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A city state in Italy, center of the Renaissance where art flourished

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Medici family

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A wealthy banking family that controlled Florence in the Renaissance. Cosimo de Medici became dictator of Florence by influencing the ruling council with loans. His grandson, Lorenzo the Magnificent came to power in 1469 and also ruled as a dictator.

Question 20

Machiavelli

Answer 20

Italian historian, politician, diplomat, philosopher, and writer in Florence who wrote The Prince

Question 21

Leonardo da Vinci

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A genius; painter, inventor, scientist, sculptor.

Question 22

Raphael

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Painter who studied Michelangelo and da Vinci. Realistic style, famous for use of perspective

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Pope Julius II

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Pope who commissioned Michelangelo to paint the Sistine Chapel ceiling, and other paintings from Raphael and Bramante

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Michelangelo

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Painter, sculptor, architect, and poet who painted the Sistine Chapel ceiling and sculpted the statue of David

Question 25

Masaccio

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First great Italian painter of the Italian Renaissance

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Brunelleschi

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Important architect and engineer in the Renaissance

Question 27

Donatello

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Sculptor who specialized in realistic postures and natural expressions.

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Mantegna

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Italian painter who experimented with perspective

Question 29

Jan van Eyck

Answer 29

Flemish Northern Renaissance painter who developed oil painting techniques and painted realistic and revealing portraits

Question 30

Bosch

Answer 30

Dutch painter who influenced Flemish painting