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Renaissance1
The Renaissance
| Question | Answer |
|---|---|
| Italian art historian who wrote about the rebirth of art in the 15th and 16th centuries and first introduced the term "renaissance" | Giorgio Vasari |
| City regarded as the center of the Renaissance | Florence |
| Major industry in Florence | Textiles, then banking |
| Family that dominated Florence during the 15th century | The Medici |
| Most famous of the Medici who ruled Florence from 1469-1492 | Lorenzo the Magnificent |
| Franciscan friar who gained power in Florence and exercised a strict and puritanical rule over the city | Savonarola |
| Elected chief executive of Venice | The Doge |
| Borgia pope who was very corrupt in promoting his family's interests | Alexander VI |
| Known as the Warrior Pope because he led papal armies against the French and the Venetians; renowned patron of the arts, began St. Peter's Basilica | Julius II |
| Medici pope who used papal influence to help his family in Florence; he was pope at the beginning of the Reformation | Leo X |
| Author of the Middle Ages best known for his Divine Comedy telling of his journey through the Inferno, Purgatory, and Pardise | Dante Alighieri |
| Renowned poet who developed the Italian sonnet; instrumental in researching classical authors and thus was regarded as the founder of the Italian humanism | Petrarch |
| Wrote the Decameron; learned Greek in his search for ancient manuscripts | Boccaccio |
| Collection of bawdy tales told by a group of ten young people fleeing Florence during the Black Death | The Decameron |
| Most important writer on politics during the Renaissance; wrote advice for rulers on how to preserve authority | Niccolo Machiavelli |
| Humanist who wrote The Book of the Courtier presenting the rules of gentlemanly behavior | Baldassare Castiglione |
| Book by Machiavelli giving advice to rulers | The Prince |
| Book by Castiglione giving advice on how a gentleman should live | The Book of the Courtier |
| Famed goldsmith and silversmith; wrote his Autobiography telling his sexual and personal exploits | Benvenuto Cellini |
| Renaissance scholar who applied the methods of linguistic and historical analysis to demonstrate the Donation of Constantine was a forgery | Lorenzo Vallo |
| Renaissance philosopher who wrote the Oration on the Dignity of Man, a key text of Renaissance humanism | Pico della Mirandola |
| Florentine humanist, historian, and statesman who was chancellor of Florence; he wrote a History of the Florentine People establishing the three-period view of history: Antiquity, Middle Ages, and Modern | Leonardo Bruni |
| Renaissance humanist and feminist who taught moral philosophy at the University of Prada, who published her letters defending women's right to education and against the oppression of married women | Laura Cereta |
| Regarded as the first artist of the Italian Renaissance because he portrayed his religious subjects in a more truly human fashion and placed them in realistic settings | Giotto |
| Artistic technique using strong contrast of light and dark | Chiaroscuro |
| Florentine paper who demonstrated perspective especially with his "The Holy Trinity | Masaccio |
| Early Renaissance artist and sculptor from Florence, most famous for his bronze David, the first free-standing nude statue since ancient times | Donatello |
| Florentine painter whose most famous works use mythological themes such as "The Birth of Venus" and "Primavera." | Sandro Botticelli |
| First Italian artist to use oil paints; his most famous works were the "Mona Lisa," "The Last Supper," and the "Virgin of the Rocks." He is also known for his scientific research | Leonardo da Vinci |
| Artist who is most famous for his Madonnas and his famous frescos for the Vatican Palace, especially "The School of Athens." | Raphael |
| Florentine sculptor who was first patronized by the Medicis; his sculptures, "David" and "Moses" established his reputation as the greatest sculptor of the Italian Renaissance; his masterpiece was the ceiling of the Sistine Chapel | Michelangelo |
| First major architect of the Italian Renaissance; most famous for the octagonal dome of the cathedral of Florence | Brunelleschi |
| Most famous of the Venetian Renaissance painters; known for his rich use of colors; painted "The Assumption of the Virgin" | Titian |
| German credited with setting up the first practical printing press in the mid 15th century | Johannes Gutenberg |
| Efforts by Northern Renaissance writers to unite classical learning with the Christian faith | Christian humanism |
| Group founded in Holland to devote themselves both to education based on classical learning and to inculcating among themselves a deep spiritual relationship with Christ and a love of their fellow human beings | Brethren of the Common Life |
| Follower of the Brethren of the Common Life who wrote "The Imitation of Christ." | Thomas à Kempis |
| Regarded as the most outstanding of the Christian humanists, ridiculed his own time in "Praise of Folly." He also wrote an annotated edition of the New Testament in Greek; criticized the Roman Catholic Church but not a Protestant | Desiderius Erasmus |
| First major painters to develop and use oil paints; painted an altarpiece of Ghent | Jan and Hubert van Eyck |
| Flemish painter who created fantasy and nightmarish men and monsters in his "Garden of Earthly Delight." | Hieronymus Bosch |
| German artist most known for his woodcuts and engravings, but also a famous painter | Albrecht Dürer |
| Renowned portrait painter who spent time in England painting Henry VIII and the people of his court | Hans Holbein the Younger |
| French author who wrote satirical fantasies, "Gargantua" and "Pantagruel;" which were bawdy tales, but he also considered questions of philosophy and expressed his faith in individuals | François Rabelais |
| England's greatest humanist; he was also a lawyer and statesman serving as Henry VIII's lord chancellor; he also wrote "Utopia" laying out a communistic society based on reason and tolerance. | Thomas More |
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