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Renaissance
1650-1550
Term | Definition |
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New Monarchs | Louis 11 of France Henry 7 England Isabella and Ferdinand Spain Medici family and Caesar Borgia Italy |
Humanism Art | Humans enter of the universe, Natural colors, anatomic details, 3-D perspective, realism, chiaroscurro, portraits of common man, emotion and style of an individual artist. |
Sculptry | Neoclassical style of Greco-Roman statues. |
Idealism | exploraation of human body, symetry, realism |
Architecture | Newoclassial Greco Roman. symmetry, columns, arches, domes. (Filippo Brunelleschi, Leon Batista Alberti) |
Petrarch | first modern writer, father of humanism. wrote in vernacular italian and latin. |
Boccacio | "Decameron" tales that reflected human conditions |
Dante | "Devine Comedy" defined vernacular of italian |
Baldassare Castiglione | "The Book of the Courtuer" Manners of a Renaissance Man |
Niccolo Machiavelli | "The Prince" governments should rule w/ out moral judgment. can be loved or feared but not hated. |
Copernicus | heliocentric view: the heavenly bodies revolved around the sun |
Mysticism | belief that an individual alone unaided by the church could commune w/ God. |
English Writers | Edmund Spenser, William Shakespheare, Thomas More "Utopia" |
French Writers | Rabelaise "Gargantua" and Montaigne |
Erasmus | "Praise of Folly" Writings influenced peace, reason, tolerance, and reform. Reform within the Catholic Church |
Spain Writers | Cervantes "Don Quixote" Lope de Vega |
Women's status | Had no effect on women, loss of status. were not allowed to own buisnesses and few were allowed education. |
Donatello | David |
Giovani Bellini | painter of the Venetian School |
Botticelli | Birth of Venus |
Leonardo da Vinci | Painter, sculptor, architect, engineer, and scientist. Last Supper, Mona Lisa. |
Michelangelo | Painting of the Sistine Chaoek for Pope Julius II. David |
Raphael | architect of St. Peter's Basilia, painted The School of Athens |