Chapter 12 Renaissance Flashcards
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giorgo vasari
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- renaissance
- artists could exhibit virtu
- did not exclude when searching for models of talent
2
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Dominican friar Girolamo Savonarola (1452-1498)
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- Preached to large crowds in Florence, made predictions that God would punish Italy for corrupt leadership
3
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Medici family ruled in
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- Florence, then got kicked out because they were accused of having corrupt leadership
4
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Italy was
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unorganized
5
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Francesco Petrarch (1304-1374):
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- Florentine poet and scholar
- peak writing was in ancient Rome, believed that a golden age would come about if they returned to peak writing, and he was witnessing that peak writing come back right now
- father of humanism
- thought julius caesar’s transformation of Rome from republic -> empire was a betrayal
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Leonardo Bruni (1374-1444)
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- Humanist historian and Florentine city official
- Linked the decline of Latin language to the decline of the Roman republic
- Divided ancient, medieval, modern
- liked republicanism
7
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Platonic takes on love
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- spiritual desire for pure, perfect beauty uncorrupted by bodily desires
- Best way to learn something was to think about it in its most perfect form
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Giovanni Pico della Mirandola (1463-1494)
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- Student of Ficino, believed universe was a hierarchy
- Believed God was at the top, humanity in the middle as the link
- Was arrested for heresy because of his beliefs of hierarchy, but was let free via Lorenzo de’ Medici
- Pico followed Savonarola
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Leonardo da Vinci
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- Wanted to reproduce what the eye could see, drew executed criminals, beauties of nature, studied bodies
10
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Leon Battista Alberti
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- Several list of achievements; writes “he” instead of “I” when congratulating himself
- domestic life for women
11
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Humanist takes on education (general)
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- study would help them with growth
12
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humanist takes on education for women
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- Wondered whether a program of study that emphasized eloquence and action was proper for women
- Women were bold in claims about value of new learning
- Humanist academies were not open to women, but few women became educated themselves
13
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Baldassare Castiglione
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- The Courtier (1528)
- men should fit prerequisites
- Music, education, order, speaking, math, ride horses, sing
- Women should be well-educated, be able to paint, dance, play a musical instrument. Should be beautiful and modest
- Was translated into several European languages, influenced patterns of conduct of elite groups in Renaissance and early modern Europe
14
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Ideal rulers
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- difficult to find, humanists looked to the classical past for models
- educated men in political affairs
15
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Niccolo Machiaveli (1469-1527)
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- Most well-known civic humanist and political theorist
- The Prince (1513), examples of rulers to argue that one should preserve order and security
16
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Christian humanists
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- Northern humanists that interpreted Italian ideas about attitudes toward classical antiquity and humanism in terms of their own religious traditions
17
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Thomas More (1478-1535)
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Utopia (1516)
