Renaissance Flashcards
Define Renaissance or Renascimento in Italian
Rebirth
Renascimento of what?
Greek and roman ideas
What is a patronage?
Marcelo Fantoni says, “Patronage is great for the production of art but totally irrational from an economic view. Patronage is a political strategy…..high political competition. Money and support that is given to an artist, organization, etc.
What is the role of classical writings in the beginning of the Renaissance?
The writings inspired painters and sculptors because of all the ancient ruins and statues.
The Silk Road
A caravan route that started in China Nd ended at the Mediterranean Sea.
What was the Medici family’s role in the Renaissance?
They created a tax for city improvements-sewer, paved streets etc. they provided funding for artists, architects, and sculptors. They also helped launch the Renaissance in Italy.
Who was Michelangelo?
He designed buildings wrote poetry, carved sculptures, and painted magnificent pictures. His most of famous work is a painting that covers the ceiling of the Sistine chapel in the Vatican. The muscular human figures in this immense painting remind the viewer of Greek or roman cultures. He is most known for the statue of David and la pieta. He would spend hours in the mourge studying the human body.
Leonardo da Vinci
1452-1519
He was an illegitimate son of a common worker and he had very little formal education. He moved to Florence as a young boy and became apprenticed. He is most known for his paintings Mona Lisa, Adoration of the Magi, Last Supper and his notebooks. He is famous for the development of the Sfumato that gives a smokey/haziness/ and softness to a painting
Who is Botticelli?
He is one of the greatest painters of the Renaissance. He had a balance between religious paintings and strictly mythological and humanistic paintings. He was one of the first to really bring out giving in his human subjects, flesh gone, giving his paintings a human and alive feel. The birth of Venus was the first time a painting portrayed a non biblical character in the nude in over 1000 years. He is known for the birth of Venus, primavera , and calumny of Apelles
Who is Raphael?
He is a master painter and architect of the Renaissance. Some believe he is the greatest painter of all time. He is best known for his Madonnas and works he completed for the pope and Vatican. Some of his famous works are: Wedding of the Virgin, transfiguration, Pope Julius 11 and Madonna in the meadow.
Who is Niccolo Machiavelli?
A later italin writer who was also a politician. In 1513 he wrote a short book called the prince. it gave leaders advice on how they should rule.
Who is Galileo, Copernicus, and Mercator?
Galileo created telescopes, Mercator made maps and globes, Copernicus came up with the theory of the sun being the center of the universe and it spinning on its axis. He didn’t however pint out that it was ellipse pattern instead of a perfect circle.
What is the Renaissance man?
This term means that a person has very many talents that involve the sciences, math, and arts. Is someone that can do practically anything well.
What is Petrarch?
A Renaissance scholar warned against ignoring history: “O inglorius age! That scorns antiquity, its mother to whom it owes every noble art… what can be said in defense of men of education who ought not to be ingorant of antiquity and yet are plunged in….darkness and delusion?
What is Humanism?
The study of the humanities led to a movement called humanism, a way of thinking and learning that stresses the importance of human abilities and actions.
