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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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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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
