Chapter 13 Lesson 1-2 Flashcards
Subjects such as grammar, poetry, rhetoric and history
Humanities
The Renaissance intellectual movement that studied classical cultures to increase understand of their own times
Humanism
Florentine humanist, poet, and scholar who assembled a library of Greek and Roman manuscripts to encourage learning
Petrarch
An Italian city-state that produced many gifted artists, scholars, scientists and architects
Florence
Person who provides financial support for the arts
Patron
The artistic technique that allows an artists to portray depth and three-dimensional qualities by making distant objects smaller
Perspective
Artists, scientist, and inventor best known for the Mona Lisa and The Last Supper and sketches of inventions such as flying machines
Leonardo
Artist; created sculpture of David and painted the ceiling of the Sistine Chaplel
Michelangelo
Painter; blended Christian and classical styles; famous works includes the School or Athens and his portrayals of the Madonna
Raphael
Wrote the book of the courtier describing the manners and qualities aristocratic men and women should display
Baldassare Castiglione
Wrote the prince, describing how to rule in an age of ruthless power politics
Niccolo Machiavelli
In 1455, printed a complete bible on a printing press with movable type
Johann Gutenberg
A prosperous region of cities in the present-day Netherlands, France! and Belgium where the northern renaissance began
Flanders
Applied painting techniques to engraving; spread Renaissance ideas in Northern Europe
Albrecht Durer
A technique in which an artist etches a design on metal plate using acid; the plate is then used to make prints
Engraving
