Flashcards in Renaissance Deck (43)
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Topography
Surface features of a region.
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Hinterland
Area surrounding a city.
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Mercenary soldiers
Soldiers for hire
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Oligarchy
Government by a few powerful people
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Florin/ducat
Gold coins weighing about 3.5 grams
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Pile
A heavy beam driven upright into the earth to support a structure
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Republic
A state in which citizens elect representatives to form a government
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To patronize
To support
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Renaissance man
A term traditionally used to describe a person skilled in many areas
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Proportion
A correct relation among parts
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Perspective
Giving the appearance of distance on a flat surface
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Human anotomy
The science of the structure of the human body
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Essentric
Odd, peculiar person
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Blasphemous
Showing contempt for sacred things
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Fresco
Painted with water colour on fresh plaster
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Renaissance
The French word that means reborn
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City-states
Consists of a city and the rural area immediately surrounding it
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Condotierri
A leader of mercenary soldiers in Renaissance Italy
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Doge
Supreme ruler
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Giotto do bondone
A florentine artist who developed the rule of proportion in paintings so that paintings are "in scale".
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Filippo Brunelleschi
A florentine artist who discovered the laws of perspective, which allows artists to add depth in their pictures
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Leonardo da Vinci
A man who painted and sculpted sculptures. Lived from 1452-1519. He is most famous for the painting of "Mona Lisa".
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Michelangelo
Thought himself as a sculptor but also painted, like the fresco painting he did on the ceiling of the Sistine Chapel. But he is most famous for the sculpture that he carved called "David"
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Artimesia Gentileschi
A renaissance artist born in Naples, 1593. Daughter of the famous painter Orazio Gentileschi. She got fame and independence through art, she painted "Judith slaying Holofernes"
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Johann Gutenberg
In the middle of the 15th century, Johann Gutenberg, a German, invented the printing press with moveable type. So that printers could produce a thousands of copies of a book much faster.
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Parchment
A form of paper created from dried lamb skin.
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Mass produce
A large amount of things getting produced at the same time
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Albrecht Durer
He used the printing press for both wood-block art and art manuals that popularize the ideas of Italian renaissance.
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Peiter Bruegel
A painter who painted people in scenes of their everyday life
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