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14th chapter
vocab words
| Question | Answer |
|---|---|
| Patron | financial supporter of the arts. |
| Humanism | an intellectual movement. |
| Humanities | the subjects taught in ancient Greek and Roman schools. |
| Perspective | By making distant objects smaller than close to the viewer. |
| Engraving | in which the artist etches a design on a metal plate with acid. |
| Vernacular | everyday language or ordianry people. |
| Utopian | description of any ideal society. |
| Indulgence | a lessening of the time a soul would have to spend in purgatory. |
| Recant | giving up on views. |
| Predestination | The idea that God would had long ago determined who would gain salvation. |
| Theocracy | Government ran by church leaders. |
| Annul | to cancel. |
| Canonize | recognized as a saint. |
| Compromise | acceptable middle ground. |
| Scapegoat | person, group, or thing forced to take the blame for the crimes or mistakes of others. |
| Ghetto | seperate quarter of the city. |
| Heliocentric | sun-centered. |
| Hypothesis | possible explanation. |
| Scientific Method | Step by step process of discovery. |
| Gravity | a single force that keeps the planets in their orbits. |
| Lorenzo de Medici | the medicis ranked as one of the richest merchants and bankers in europe, artists learned their crafts by sketching ancient roman statues displayed in the medici gardens |
| francesco petrarch | florentine who lived in the 1300s was an early reninsance humanist. wrote sonnets to laura which lifluenced later writers |
| leonardo da vinchi | born in 1452 his exploring mind and endless curiosity fed a genious for invention |
| michelangelo | was a talented architect his most famous design was for the dome of st. peters cathedral in rome |
| raphael | his paintings blend chrisian and classical styles. he is probably best known for his tender for his tender portrayals of the madonna, the mother of jesus |
| baldassare castiglione | the ideal man he wrote is athletic but not overactive he is good at games but not a gambler. wrote the book of the courtier |
| niccolo machiavelli | served florence as a diplomat and had observed kings and princes in foreign courts. he had also studied ancient roman history |
| albrecht durer | travled to italy in 1494 to study techniques of the italian masters many of durers engravings protray the religeous upheavel of his age |
| jan van eyck | developed oil paint stood out among other artists in flanders |
| francois rabelais | french humanist had a varied career as a monk physician greek scholar and author. gargantua and pantagruel he chronicled the adventure of teo gentle giants |
| william shakespeare | english poet and playwright wrote 37 plays between 1590 and 1613. his love of words vastly enriched the english language. |
| miguel de cervantes | wrote don quixote in the early 1600s. iit was an entertaining tale that mocks romantic notions of medical chivalry |
| johann gutenberg |
Created by:
hunter evans
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