Renaissance Quiz Flashcards

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Why does this period start?

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Wealthy families begin to spend their money on artwork

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Renaissance

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“Rebirth”

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Where does it take place?

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Florence

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3
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What are the important characteristics of this period?

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  • life is back to normal after the plague
  • access to learning: printing press
  • rise of universities
  • fall of Constantinople and rescuing of Greek and roman texts
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Linear perspective

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  • Conveys depth by reducing the size of objects as they regress into space to a vanishing point
  • made artists paint Witt the viewer in mind, created real scenes
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What was Brunelleschi’s theory of the vanishing point?

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  • Objects in the distance appear smaller

- Parallel lines will converge

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6
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What was the renaissance a rebirth of?

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Greco-roman ideas, learning, and education

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Why was the 13th century art unable to create the 3D illusion?

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No system of creating depth

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Why was Giotto unsuccessful at fully creating 3D images?

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They only relied on observation

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Atmospheric perspective

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  • creates depth by blurring lines and details of objects or figures as the image regresses into the distance
  • the scenes and people become more realistic, makes it seem the person is actually taking up space in the atmosphere
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Golden ratio

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  • Conveys realistic proportions and features using the ratio 1/1.618
  • makes artwork more proportionate and realistic
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Intersection of Christianity and Greco-roman world

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  • everyone looks equal, humans are equal to God

- the school of Athens is hanging in the Vatican

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Individualism

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  • Every human is an independent, unique, and free thinker with rights and value, uniqueness, distinctiveness
  • ex: social media
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Humanism

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  • a perspective that focuses on the worth, potential, and capacity of humans, people improving their world
  • ex: people studying medicine
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Rationalism

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  • a view that users reasoning and logic as the foundation of knowledge, trying to figure out the world around us
  • ex: science lab
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Materialism

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  • perspective that things and objects of wealth are of the highest importance, you are what you have
  • ex: iPhone, shoes, cars
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Characteristics of the courtier

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  • Men must hunt, wrestle, swim, play tennis and cannot walk the tightrope, do cartwheels
  • book on the ideal man
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Ideal man

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  • capable of a lot
  • high expectations
  • high view
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Ideal figure

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Person- self obsessed, unintelligent, greedy, cowards, perceive themselves highly
Prince- merciless, low view of man but high view of them self, God like

19
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Ideal love

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-expectation, satirical, deserve more, wished for more

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Ideal beauty

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Storing, powerful, God like perfection, unrealistic, show what they are capable of

21
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Machiavelli’s “the prince” characteristics

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case studies

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Erasmus “the praise of folly”

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fear as a leader motivates