unit 1: Reneissance Flashcards
Renaissance
Def: aprox 14th-16th centuries, french word for rebirth
Sig: had lasting change in society, moving from old thinking to new way of being. secularism, changes in economy, merchant class, fall of feudal system, persuit of knowledge, state power.
Feudalism
Def: nobility held lands for crown in return for military service
Sig: in the renissance period we began seeing a decrease in feudalism, the economy was no longer based on land but on trade+credits+markets
Nicolo Machiavelli
Def:florentine public servant and political theoriest
Sig: writer of “the prince”
The prince
Def: written in 1513 published 1532, a political treatise. Written to gain favour of Medici family offering advice on how a prince should gain+keep power.
Sig:viewed humans as inately evil, you had to be shrewed in order to gain power. impacted political leaders by introducing his philosophy.
Humanism
Def: revival or ancient greek+latin, concerned with wordly affairs.
Sig: (living, human dignity, responsible citizens) they shifted the focus from the divine to how we are to live on earth, which had a lasting impact on society. human nature believed to be full of potential
Leonardo Da vinci
Def: Renissance man most known for his art
Sig: Mona Lisa + last supper, also created designs for helicopter tank solar power and calculator.
Renissance man
Def: ideal man, was good at many things not just one thing
Sig: encouraged people to advance and think and grow
Lorenzo de Medici
Def: very powerful merchant class Sig: funded the arts,
Merchant class:
Def: made their money by buying and selling other things ppl made
Sig: rose to power during this time, changed fudeal system
Mona Lisa
Def: da vinci, 1506,
high renissance, portraits,
Last supper
Def: Da vinci 1495
SIg: high renissance, relegion
Vitruvian man:
Def: drawing by da vinci
Sandro Botichelli
italian painter
Birth of venus
Def: botticelli 1482
Sig: early renissance, mythology, the human body
Michaelangelo
Def: sculptor, painter, poet, engineer
carved figures from single block of marble
best documented artist of 16th century
the pieta, creation of man
