Renaissance Flashcards
(33 cards)
What is portrait?
A drawing of someone
What is sfumato?
A technique of shading
What is a fresco?
A painting on a wall or ceiling applied on plaster.
What is anatomy?
The study of the body
What is perspective ?
How the things in the background are smaller than the things in the front
When and where did the renaissance begin?
About in 1400 in Florence
Why did the renasaince begin?
Because people questioned how we did things then and thought of better ideas
How long did the renaissance last?
200 years
What is humanism?
An interest in human beings
How did the italian merchants get rich?
They brought silks and spices from Asia and sold them in Europe
What is a sculpture?
A statue made of stone, metal and wood
Name a Renaissance sculptor
Michelangelo Buonarotti
Who was the first famous architect of the Renaissance?
Filippo Brunelleschi
What was a manuscript?
A handwritten book
Why were books so expensive in the renaissance?
Because they were rare and the process was very slow
What country invented printing?
The chinese invented printing
How did the chinese print books?
They wood carve the pictures in wood or metal put it in ink and press it on the paper.
Who invented the moveable type of printing?
Johannes gutenberg
What did moveable type mean?
That you could use the small metal letters over and over again
What is vernacular literature?
Literature written in the everyday language
Who did the middle ages people base their ideas on?
Galen, an ancient greek scholar
Why couldn’t we trust Galen’s theories?
Because he had never dissected any human body
Why was it difficult for doctors to find out about organs of the human body and how it worked?
Because the church was aginst cutting up bodies and in the 1300s the pope banned it
Wgat two renaissance doctors proved that the old theory was wrong?
Vesalius and Harvey
