Term | Definition |
Renaissance | rebirth of art and learning in Europe,1300-1600 |
Humanism | focus on human potential and achievements |
Secular | Concerned with worldly rather than spiritual matters |
Patron | Person who financially supported artist |
Michelangelo Buonarroti | Italian Renaissance sculptor, architect, painter, and poet; he sculpted the Pietà and the David, and he painted the ceiling of the Sistine Chapel. |
Leonardo da Vinci | painter, sculptor, inventor, and scientist. A true “Renaissance man,” he was interested in how things worked |
What factor led to the beginning of the Renaissance in Northern Europe? | Hundred year war
Bubonic Plague
Moved to cities
Middle Class Updated |
How were the Northern Renaissance different from Renaissance in Italy? | Italy- Religion
Classic learning to religious thinking
Social reform |
What Northern European artist and what did writers write about? | Leonardo Da Vinci
Raphael
Moore
More realistic paints
Write about realism, everyday life
Self expression
Painted life like painted |
How did the invention of the printing press spread learning and idea? | Made books cheap so people would get an education
Bible was printed in different languages
Famous writers: William Shakespeare and Thomas Moore |
What was the importance use of vernacular? | More people could read in their own birthed language |
How was the new spirit of inquiry affected by the Renaissance? | Started to question everything because they wanted to form their own opinions and make up their own minds “skepticisms” |
Achievements of the Renaissances | Printing Press
Change in literature
Change in thought |