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| Question | Answer |
|---|---|
| This friar controlled Florence from 1494-1498. He was hung and burned. | Savonarola |
| Wrote 'Dignity of Man' | Pico |
| The "father of humanism" | Pertrarch |
| Wrote 'Utopia' | Sir Thomas More |
| His crew circumnavigated the globe | Magellan |
| Designed El Duomo's dome | Brunelleschi |
| The French king who invaded Italy in 1494 | Charles the 8th, Charles VIII |
| The two countries vying for power in the Italian Peninsula during the Renaissance | Spain and France |
| Painted the Sistine Chapel ceiling (and more) | Michelangelo |
| Why was the Northern Renaissance more tolerant of the Christian Church? | Geography |
| Painted the School of Athens | Leonardo da Vinci |
| Explain mercantilism | the colonies benefit the mother country |
| de Pizan's best known work | City of Ladies |
| Painted Primavera | Boticelli |
| One idea Machiavelli advocates for in the Prince | strong military, it is better to be feared than loved, ends justify the means |
| He lead Florence through its golden age until his death in 1492 | Lorenzo di Medici |
| Author of the Praise of Folly | Erasmus |
| What is Christian Humanism? | The education and following of Christianity |
| What is 'virtue?' What Middle Ages thinking did it replace? | virtue is Renaissance ideals, replaced folly the 7 deadly sins |
| A 'technology' which helped spread humanistic thought | printing press |
| Asides from paint, something else Leonardo was good at | science |
| Humanists looked to these two 'classical' cultures for inspiration | Rome and Greece |
| One difference in Italian Renaissance Art and Northern Renaissance Art | the Northern Renaissance was more religious |
| These two countries led European exploration in the 1400s and 1500s | Portugal and Spain |
| Defended the natives during the Age of Exploration | Bartolome de las Casas |
| Location/Identity is Italian Renaissance; Key Works(s) are Triumphs II Canzoniere; Description/Accomplishments is scholar, poet, "father of humanism." Rediscovered Cicero's letters | Francisco Petrarca (Petrarch) (1304-1374) |
| Location/identity is Italian Renaissance; Key Works(s) are The Decameron; Description/Accomplishments is Humanist, writer, poet, and correspondent of Petrarch | Giovanni Boccaccio (1315-1375) |
| Locat/Ident is Florence, Italy; Key Work(s) are "Bonfires of hte vanities" to combat secularism; Descr/Accom is Italian friar/preacher. Called for Christian renewal, organized "bonfires of vanities." Burned at stake when popular opinion turned against him | Savonarola (1452-1498) |
| Location/Identity is Italian Renaissance Florence; Key Work(s) are An Oration on the Dignity of Man; Description/Accomplishments is Nobleman, philosopher and major Renaissance humanist | Pico della Mirandola (1463-1494) |
| Location/Identity is Italian Renaissance; Key Work(s) are Book of the Courtier; Description/Accomplishments is Book on court etiquette widely influenced Western Europe | Baldassare Castiglione (1478-1529) |
| Location/Identity is Florence Italian Renaissance; Description/Accomplishments is Banker, statesman ruler of France. Most powerful and enthusiastic patron of Renaissance art | Lorenzo de Medici (1449-1492) |
| Location/Identity is Florence Italian Renaissance; Key Work(s) are Sistine Chapel ceiling, David, Pieta, Moses, the Last Judgment; Description/Accomplishments is Sculpter, painter, architect, and poet. Greatly influenced Renaissance art | Michelangelo (1475-1564) |
| Location/Identity is Italian Renaissance; Key Work(s) are Mona Lisa, The Last Supper; Description/Accomplishments is Painter, sculpter, engineering, anatomy | Leonardo da Vinci (1452-1519) |
| Location/Identity is Florence; Key Work(s) are The Prince; Description/Accomplishments is Diplomat, philosopher, writer. Advanced political ideas on leadership/governance | Machiavelli (1469-1527) |
| Location/Identity is England; Key Work(s) are Utopia; Description/Accomplishments is Lawyer, author, statesman, Renaissance humanist | Thomas More (1478-1535) |
| Location/Identity is Netherlands; Key Work(s) are On Free Will; In Praise of Folly; Description/Accomplishments is Philosopher, priest, Christian scholar. Northern Renaissance. Committed to ending clerical abuse and reforming Church | Desiderius Erasmus (1466-1536) |
| Location/Identity is Italy; Key Work(s) are St. Peter's Basilica; Description/Accomplishments is Depictions of human grandeur in art | Raphael Santi (1483-1520) |
| Location/Identity is Northern Renaissance Germany; Key Work(s) are Oil paintings, woodcuts; Description/Accomplishments is Painter, printmaker, and theorist | Albrecht Durer (1471-1528) |
| Location/Identity is Belgium Northern Renaissance; Key Work(s) are Ghent Altarpiece; Description/Accomplishments is Painter; first European to utilize oil painting | Jan van Eyck (1390-1441) |
| Locaiton/Identity is Netherlands Northern Renaissance; Key Work(s) are Children's Games Hunters in the Snow; Description/Accomplishments is Most significant artist of Dutch and Flemish Renaissance painting | Pieter Bruegel the Elder (1526-1569) |