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The Italian Renaissance Flashcards

1
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What does Renaissance mean?

A

rebirth

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The Florentines created their ideal man?

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strong-willed, public-spirited, and versatile

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What family was the patron of the arts?

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Medici Family

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4
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Known as the banker and The Elder?

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Cosimo de Medici

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Known as IL Magnifico

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Lorenzo de Medici

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Known as a Dominican friar, preached against the Pope, given political power, then hanged and burned?

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Girolamo Savonarola

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Amerigo Vespucci, ‘Discovered the new world’

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Christopher Columbus

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Florentine political philosopher and diplomat. Famous work is The Prince?

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Niccolo Machiavelli

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Italian physicist, astronomer, father of modern science, improved the telescope, and supported helicentrism?

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Galileo Galilei

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Italian mathematician and astronomer who was tried by the Inquisition and burned at the stake. Founded guilty of heresy?

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Giordano Bruno

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The leading artists of the early renaissance period in Florence?

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Donatello, Masaccio, Sandro Botticelli.

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David (Bronze statue) and Gattamelata (a bronze statue of a rider on a horse) were done by who?

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Donatello

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13
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The Gattamelata is located where?

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Padua in the region of Veneto

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14
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Most notable painter of the early Renaissance?

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Masaccio

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Known for the Birth of Venus and Primavera?

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Sandro Botticelli

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The High Renaissance’s most famous artists?

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Leonardo da Vinci, Michelangelo, Raphael.

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Famous for the Last Supper, Mona Lisa, scientist and engineer?

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Leonardo da Vinci

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Known for David, Moses, and Pieta. Painted the ceiling of the Sistine Chapel and designed the dome of St. Peter’s Basilica.

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Michelangelo

19
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Known for the School of Athens

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Raphael

20
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Who was the leading architect of the early Renaissance? And his masterpiece was the dome of Santa Maria del Fiore

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Filippo Brunelleschi

21
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The leading architects of the 16th century were?

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Michelangelo and Palladio

22
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The most prominent architect of the Italian High Renaissance? And Teatro Olimpico and the first covered theatre in Europe?

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Andrea Palladio

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