Test The rebirth Flashcards
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Renaissance
The rebrith, it began in Italy. It refers to a revival pf art learning of classical Greece and Rome.
Individualism
Importance of the individual in society
Fall of Constantinople
1453, End of the Byzatine Empire.
Urban
Having to do with a city
Rural
Having to do with the places outside of a city.
Florence
Medici Family (Bankers)
Secular
Focus on life on earth rather than on the herafter
Humanism
intellectual movement that focused on human potential and achievements (less focus on religious ideas)
Patron
On who gives financial support to artists and works
Technique of perspective
Create and appearance of three dimensions art
Leonardo Da Vinici
Painter, sculptor, inventor, scientist (Example of a renaissance man)
Raphael Sanzio
Realism in paintings - use of perspective
Niccolo Machiavelli
The Prince (1513) - advice for how a ruler should rule
Albrecht Durer
(Nurnmerg) German painter - woodcuts and engravings
Jan Van Gyck
Oil painting- Flemish painting
Northern writers try to reform society
Christian humanism
Tried to inspire people to live a christian life- interested in education as a means of reforming society
Desiderious Erasums
(Netherlands) The Praise of Folly(1509) His goal was a Christian of the heart, not ceremonies or rules.
Utopia (1516)
About an imaginary land with perfect society
William Shakespeare
Masterful comman of the English langiage and deep understanding of human doctrine
Changes in Art
Importance of the individual led to more portrait painting
Vernacular
Everyday language spoken by the people
Changes in society
Printing Press- More books - Higher literacy
New ideas infromation, and discovieries were spread faster
Skepticism
Questioning instead of simply accepting what was taught.
