Renaissance Flashcards
(18 cards)
What are the two factors that caused a drop in the Renaissance’s population?
Famine and disease
When was the European Renaissance?
1300-1600
It is a french word for rebirth
Renaissance
It was an age of recovery from disasters of the 14th century such as the black death
Renaissance
He is the father of Italian Renaissance Humanism
Francesco Petrarch
It is based on Classical Greek and Roman writings
L’uomo universal
It is focused on human potential and achievements
Humanism
It is worldly rather than spiritual
Secular
They are financially supported artists
Patrons
A man who excelled in many fields
Renaissance Man
Upper class women were expected to be educated
Renaissance women
He sculpted The David
Michelangelo Buonarroti
He is a Renaissance man that is a scientist and an artist
Leonardo da Vinci
Who ruled the Papal States?
The Pope
What are the two countries who are involved in constant war?
England and France
True or false.
Renaissance Italy was largely an urban society
True
Renaissance was an age of recovery from the ______ century disasters
14th
He is a 14th century Florentine that said that “men can do all things if they will”
Leon Battistpa Alberti
