vocabulary about Europe

Question 1

Rennaissance

Answer 1

the activity, spirit, or time of the great revival of art, literature, and learning in Europe beginning in the 14th century and extending to the 17th century, marking the transition from the medieval to the modern world.

Question 2

milan

Answer 2

an industrial city in central Lombardy, in N Italy: cathedral.

Question 3

venice

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Italian Venezia. a seaport in NE Italy, built on numerous small islands in the Lagoon of Venice.

Question 4

florence

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Italian Firenze. a city in central Italy, on the Arno River: capital of the former grand duchy of Tuscany.

Question 5

Rome

Answer 5

Italian Roma. a city in and the capital of Italy, in the central part, on the Tiber: ancient capital of the Roman Empire; site of Vatican City, seat of authority of the Roman Catholic Church.

Question 6

medici family

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The House of Medici was an Italian banking family, political dynasty and later royal house that first began to gather prominence under Cosimo de’ Medici in the Republic of Florence during the late 14th century. The family originated in the Mugello region of the Tuscan countryside, gradually rising until they were able to fund the Medici Bank.

Question 7

humanism

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any system or mode of thought or action in which human interests, values, and dignity predominate.

Question 8

machiavelli

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Niccolò di Bernardo [neek-kaw-law dee ber-nahr-daw] (Show IPA), 1469–1527, Italian statesman, political philosopher, and author.

Question 9

perspective

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a technique of depicting volumes and spatial relationships on a flat surface.
Compare aerial perspective, linear perspective.

Question 10

Gutenberg

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c1400–68, German printer: credited with invention of printing from movable type.

Question 11

erasmus

Answer 11

1466?–1536, Dutch humanist, scholar, theologian, and writer.

Question 12

william shakespeare

Answer 12

William (“the Bard”; “the Bard of Avon”) 1564–1616, English poet and dramatist.

Question 13

sir thomas more

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Hannah, 1745–1833, English writer on religious subjects.

Question 14

flemish

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of or relating to Flanders, its people, or their language.
2.
pertaining to or designating the style of art, especially painting, as developed principally in Flanders and northern France during the 15th century, chiefly characterized by sharply delineated forms, naturalistic proportions, clear, usually cool colors, and the use of perspective.

Question 15

michelangelo

Answer 15

(Michelangelo Buonarroti) 1475–1564, Italian sculptor, painter, architect, and poet.

Question 16

John van EyCK

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Jan van Eyck was an Early Netherlandish painter active in Bruges and one of the most significant Northern Renaissance artists of the 15th century. Little is known of his early life.

Question 17

albert Durer

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Albrecht Dürer was a painter, printmaker, and theorist of the German Renaissance. Born in Nuremberg, Dürer established his reputation and influence across Europe when he was still in his twenties, due to his high-quality woodcut prints.

Question 18

fresco

Answer 18

Also called buon fresco, true fresco. the art or technique of painting on a moist, plaster surface with colors ground up in water or a limewater mixture.
Compare fresco secco.

Question 19

indulgences

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the act or practice of indulging; gratification of desire.

Question 20

predestination

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an act of predestinating or predestining.

Question 21

reformation

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the religious movement in the 16th century that had for its object the reform of the Roman Catholic Church, and that led to the establishment of the Protestant churches.

Question 22

martin luther

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1483–1546, German theologian and author: leader, in Germany, of the Protestant Reformation.

Question 23

Henry vlll

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Henry VIII was King of England from 21 April 1509 until his death. He was the first English King of Ireland, and continued the nominal claim by English monarchs to the Kingdom of France.

Question 24

john calvin

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1509–64, French theologian and reformer in Switzerland: leader in the Protestant Reformation.

Question 25

Huguenots

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a member of the Reformed or Calvinistic communion of France in the 16th and 17th centuries; a French Protestant.