vocabulary about Europe Flashcards
Rennaissance
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.
milan
an industrial city in central Lombardy, in N Italy: cathedral.
venice
Italian Venezia. a seaport in NE Italy, built on numerous small islands in the Lagoon of Venice.
florence
Italian Firenze. a city in central Italy, on the Arno River: capital of the former grand duchy of Tuscany.
Rome
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.
medici family
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.
humanism
any system or mode of thought or action in which human interests, values, and dignity predominate.
machiavelli
Niccolò di Bernardo [neek-kaw-law dee ber-nahr-daw] (Show IPA), 1469–1527, Italian statesman, political philosopher, and author.
perspective
a technique of depicting volumes and spatial relationships on a flat surface.
Compare aerial perspective, linear perspective.
Gutenberg
c1400–68, German printer: credited with invention of printing from movable type.
erasmus
1466?–1536, Dutch humanist, scholar, theologian, and writer.
william shakespeare
William (“the Bard”; “the Bard of Avon”) 1564–1616, English poet and dramatist.
sir thomas more
Hannah, 1745–1833, English writer on religious subjects.
flemish
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.
michelangelo
(Michelangelo Buonarroti) 1475–1564, Italian sculptor, painter, architect, and poet.
John van EyCK
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.
albert Durer
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.
fresco
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.
indulgences
the act or practice of indulging; gratification of desire.
predestination
an act of predestinating or predestining.
reformation
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.
martin luther
1483–1546, German theologian and author: leader, in Germany, of the Protestant Reformation.
Henry vlll
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.
john calvin
1509–64, French theologian and reformer in Switzerland: leader in the Protestant Reformation.
Huguenots
a member of the Reformed or Calvinistic communion of France in the 16th and 17th centuries; a French Protestant.
