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Renaissance
| Question | Answer |
|---|---|
| Florence, Venice, and Genoa | city states of Italy with access to trade routes were independently city-states governed as republics |
| Machiavelli | Renaissance political thinker who thought the end justifies the means to achieve power |
| The Prince | Machiavelli's book about support absolute power of the ruler, end justifies the means, advises to do evil if necessary |
| Leonardo da Vinci | painter of the Last Supper and Mona Lisa |
| Last Supper | Da Vinci painting |
| Mona Lisa | Da Vinci painting |
| Michelangleo | painter and sculptor of the Italian Renaissance |
| Sistine Chapel | Michelangelo's painting of the Ceiling of the Sistine Chapel |
| David | Michelangelo sculpture |
| Raphael | School of Athens painting by Italian renaissance painter |
| Italian Renaissance art | realistic art that revived culture of ancient Rome and Greece |
| Renaissance | rebirth of art and culture in Europe, started in Italy, based in Greece and Roman culture |
| Humanism | movement that celebrated the individual, the study of Greece and Roman culture and literature |
| Patrons | wealthy families that supported the arts and humanism movement |
| Petrarch | father of humanism who supported the Renaissance and wrote love Sonnets |
| Northern Renaissance | Renaissance spread here and merged christian and humanist ideas |
| Gutenberg Printing Press | movable type invention that helped spread ideas including the Gutenberg Bible |
| Erasmus | Northern Humanist Renaissance writer who wrote Praise of Folly |
| Sir Thomas More | Northern Humanist Renaissance writer who wrote Utopia |
| Secular | non-religious time; the Renaissance (especially in the North) increasingly became secular |
| Trade | Economic reason for the rebirth of arts in Italy |
| Usury | practice of charging interest against the Church law (resisted in Northern Italy) |
| Economic Changes during the Renaissance | letters of credit, new bookkeeping practices (use of Arabic Numbers), increase in credit and banking, increased trade with Middle East |
| William Shakespeare | most famous writer of the Northern Renaissance wrote plays and sonnets (poems) |
| New Art Techniques of Renaissance | Human Emotion, perspective, realistic images |
| Usury | charging of interest on loaned money outlawed by Catholic Church |
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