Renaissance Sections 1-2

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Renaissance

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A word meaning rebirth

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Italian Renaissance

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(Aka The Renaissance) a period of history that spread from Italy

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Urban society

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A city/town based off trade

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Secular

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A worldly viewpoint

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Milan

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A city-state in Italy that played an important role in politics

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Venice

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A city-state in Italy that played an important role in politics

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Florence

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A city-state in Italy that played an important role in politics

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Francesco Sfoza

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A person who conquered Milan and led mercenaries

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Mercenaries

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Soldiers who sold their services to the highest bidder

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Cosmo de Merdici

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A person who took control of Florence and secretly ran it

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Lorenzo de Medici

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A person who made Florence a cultural city of Italy

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Rome

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A large city in Italy who was sacked

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Machiavelli

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An Italian ruler who wrote “the prince”

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The prince

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A book explaining how to obtain/keep political power

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The book of the courier

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A book describing how a noble should act

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Baldassare Castiglione

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The person who wrote the book of the courier

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Dowry

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A fine payed the the husbands family from the wife’s family

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Humanism

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A study of literal works from Ancient Greece and Rome

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Petrarch

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The father of the Italian Renaissance humanism/looked for forgotten Latin Manuscripts

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Vernacular

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The language spoken in a person’s region

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Dante

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An Italian author who helped make vernacular literature popular

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Geoffrey Chaucer

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An English author who made vernacular literature popular

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Divine Comedy

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A book by Dante describing a Soul’s journey to salvation through hevean, hell, purgatory, and salvation

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The Canterbury tales

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A collection of stories told from many people journeying to St Thomas a becket

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Canterbury

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A city in England

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Christine de Pizan

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A vernacular literature author who wrote in defense of women

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The book of the city of ladies

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A book describing a women’s ability to learn like men

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Masaccio

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A painter who used Frescos

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Fresco

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A painting made of wet plaster and water based paints

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Donatello

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A sculptor who studies Greek and Roman statues

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Filippo Brunelleschi

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A person who made architect inspired by Roman architect

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Church of San Lorenzo

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A work of Brunelleschi imitating Roman architect

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Leonardo da Vinci

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An Italian artist who mastered realism

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Raphael

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Another Italian painter who made realism based on ideal beauty using frescos

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School of Athens

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A Raphael painting containing underlying Greek/roman art

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Michelangelo

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A sculptor/painter/architect who painted perfect proportioned people

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Sistine Chapel

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A place with art from Michelangelo on the ceilijg

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Flanders

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A place with an important school of art

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Jan can Eyck

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One of the first people to perfect oil painting

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Oil painting

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A painting with paint made of oils and resin to make translucent color

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Giovanni Arnolfini and his bride

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A Patiño FM by van Eyck with striking realism

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Albrecht Durer

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A German artist who harmonized his techniques and Italian techniques

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Perspective

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The way something looks from positioning

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Adoration of the Magi

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Drüers painting which harmonized his own and Italian techniques

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Observation

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Watching/studying something to gain info about it