Vocabulary Flashcards
Renaissance
The humanistic revival of classical art, architecture, literature, and learning that originated in Italy in the 14th century and later spread throughout Europe.
Milan
city in Italy
Venice
A city of northeast Italy on islets within a lagoon in the Gulf of Venice, an inlet of the Adriatic Sea.
Florence
City in central Italy on the Arno River.
Rome
Capital of Italy, largest city in the country.
Medici Family
Italian noble family that produced three pope.
Humanism
an outlook or system of thought attaching prime importance to human rather than divine or supernatural matters.
Machiavelli
Italian statesman, political philosopher, and author.
Perspective
a picture employing this technique, especially one in which it is prominent.
Gutenberg
German printer: credited with invention of printing from movable type.
Erasmus
Dutch humanist, scholar, theologian, and writer.
William Shakespeare
English poet and dramatist.
Sir Thomas More
an English lawyer, social philosopher, author, statesman and noted Renaissance humanist.
Flemish
the people of Flanders.
Michelangelo
Italian sculptor, painter, architect, and poet.
John Van Eyck
an Early Netherlandish painter active in Bruges and one of the most significant Northern Renaissance artists of the 15th century.
Albert Durer
a painter, printmaker, and theorist of the German Renaissance.
Fresco
a painting done rapidly in watercolor on wet plaster on a wall or ceiling
Indulgences
the action or fact of indulging.
Predestination
the divine foreordaining of all that will happen, especially with regard to the salvation of some and not others.
Reformation
a 16th-century movement for the reform of abuses in the Roman Catholic Church ending in the establishment of the Reformed and Protestant Churches.
Martin Luther
A sixteenth-century German religious leader; the founder of Protestantism.
Henry the 8th
A king of England in the early sixteenth century.
John Calvin
French theologian and reformer in Switzerland.
