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S.S Renaissance
| Question | Answer |
|---|---|
| What was the cause of Italys population becoming more urban | more people in city;more customers for artists;more money for art;--->more disscosion and sharing ideas about art |
| renaissance | "rebirth" |
| secular | when people were more interested in the world than religion and getting to heaven |
| Florence | most important citystate in italy |
| Venice | important citystate |
| why did the renaissance start in Italy? | center of roman empire;had remains of ruins and art;became wealthy through bamking but trading first....divided into city states which made compotition |
| Marco polo | merchant from vencie who went to China |
| Medici | florences richest family;were bankers who have banks as far as london |
| how did florence and the medici family become so wealthy? | at first florences wealth came from trading cloth and especially wool. then am naking which made people very wealthy. thats how medici became wealthy;through banking |
| ancient works become popular | in the 1300s, italians began to study roman and greek words |
| changes in literature | during renaissance educated people wrote in "pure" latin,(the latin used in ancient rome) |
| the printing press spreads ideas | the printing press was a key to the spread of humanist ideas through europe |
| how did humanism affect society | humanist scholars study greeks and romans to increase their knowlege |
| humanism | renaisance movement |
| vernacular | everyday language people speak in a regin |
| what was the benifit of writing in vernacular? | the benifit was more people could understand your work |
| what weresome differences between medival art and renaissance art? | renaissance tries to show how people would appear and emotions. medival was the birth of jesus;also renaissance used techquines such as persectve and shadows and depth |