Reniassance

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Renissance

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Means rebirth

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Printing Press

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Developed around 1440w by Jordan Gutenberg and makes books

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Literacy - reading and writing

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Due to printing press, information spread and increased in society

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Leonardo Da Vinci

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Italian inventor, painter, sculptor, engineer and know as the “Renaissance Man.” Painted Mona Lisa and The Last Supper

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The Last Supper

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Famous Renaissance painting by Da Vinci of Jesus and the Twelve Disciples

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Mona LIsa

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Famous Renaissance painting by Da Vinci

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Michelangelo

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Painter and poet and famous works includes the statue of Daiv

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The Creation of Adam

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Famous painting by Michelangelo of the biblical story

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David

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Famous statue by Michelangelo of the Biblical character who defeated Goliath and became a Jewish King

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Shakespeare

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English writer and playwright famous for penning such classics as Romeo & Juliet and Hamlet

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Greece and Rome

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The Renaissance was considered a rebirth of learning and culture from these two classical western civilizations

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Trade

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Led to the sharing culture among the civilizations of Europe, the Middle East, and Asia (India and China)

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Florence

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Italy’s leading cultural center during Renaissance; important for trade and commerce

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Machiavelli

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Italian writer and political advisor who wrote “the Prince”

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Renaissance Man

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Someone who is well-educated, artistic and inventive

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Humanism

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An intellectual movement that that focused on individual humans and their values and worth

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Secular

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Attitudes or beliefs not based on religion

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Merchants

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People who buy and sell goods

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Gutenberg Bible

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The first full-sized book printed with moveable type

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Desiderius Erasmus

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Christian Humanist from Holland who often poked fun at mankind and also believed society will improve if people studied the Bible

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Isabella d’Este

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She is considered the First Woman of the Renaissance

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Perspective

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Renaissance painters used this technique

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Vernacular

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Many Renaissance writers chose to write in their native language

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Medici Family

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Rich banking family in Florence that controlled the government major influence on the Renaissance

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Realism

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Renaissance artists used Proportion, perspective, and Individuality to create this effect

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Vanishing point

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Another name for the “horizon” on a painting to create perspective

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Patrons

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People who financially supported artists during the Renaissance

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Machiavelli, The Prince

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Written by Machiavelli, described that power is more important “better to be feared than loved”

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Advantages of Gutenberg’s printing press

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Cheaper books, increase in education/literacy; ideas spread fast

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The pillars of the Renaissance

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Individualism, Humanism, Secularism

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Sofonisba Anguissola

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She was the first woman artist to gain an international reputation and known for her portraits of her sisters

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Christine De Pizan

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Highly educated Renaissance era woman who was among the first to earn a living as a writer, wrote books and short stories

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Filippo Brunelleschi

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Florentine architect who was the first great architect of the Italian Renaissance

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Christian humanists

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Humanists from Northern Europe who believed that a classical education mixed with their spirituality

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Jan van Eyck

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Flemish painter who was a founder of the Flemish school of painting

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Skepticism

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A philosophy which suggests that nothing can ever be known for certain; known by people questioning traditions and authority

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Castiglione’s “the Courtier”

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A book which became a handbook to show how all European aristocrats should act

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Vatican

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The palace in Rome in which the Pope lives

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Fresco

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Watercolor paintings done on wet plaster

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Urban

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Relating to a city

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Boccaccio

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Humanist writer who wrote “the Decameron”

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petrach

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Father of Humaism who wrote in Latin and the Vernacular poems

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Thomas More

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He was an English Christian Himanist who wrote “Utopia”

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Vitoria Colonna

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She was a female Renaissance writer. She wrote about politics and exchanged sonnets with Michelangelo

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Raphael

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Italian Renaissance painter; he painted frescos and he was famous for The School of Athens

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Donaltello

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Sculptor, carves natural postures and expressions that reveal personality

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Genteleschi

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Started working with her father and became one of the best female artists of the Baroque period

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Albrecent Durer

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Famous Northern Renaissance artist, he often used woodcutting along with Italian Renaissance techniques with proportion, perspective, and modeling

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Hans Holbein

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A northern Renaissance artist who was known for his portraits. He painted Erasmus, Henry VIII and Edward VI

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Pieter Breughel (the Elder)

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Painted large numbers of people in realistic detail

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Palladio

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Was a Italian architect active in the Republic of Venice

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Savonarola

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Franciscan Friar in Florence who objected to many of the new attitudes in the Renaissance/humaism