The Renaissance Flashcards
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What was the Italian Renaissance?
It was a “rebirth” (renaissance means rebirth) of interest in the art, ideas, and knowledge of ancient Greece and Rome. People started focusing more on human potential, science, beauty, and creativity, moving away from the strictly religious focus of the Middle Ages.
What was humanism?
Study of greek and roman literature,rhetoric and history
Humans could achieve anything using reason and education intellectual potential rather than religous concerns
What was secularism
Separation of church from other institutions.
Places humans beings not
god as the center of attention in life
What was education like in the renaissance?
Opened universities to study human nature and skills. Teach future business, political, military leaders to become persuasive speakers/writers.
Secondary schools taught roman history, greek philosophy, latin grammar and rhetoric. only for nobles
Petrarch
Classical scholar, writer, father of humanism, as shown through his letters,poetry, and collections.
Called medieval years the dark ages.
rediscovered classical texts from ancient greece and rome
Lorenzo Valla
linguistic analysis of donation of Constantine to find forgery.
Leonardo Bruni
Leonardo Bruni (1370–1444) was a super important figure of the early Italian Renaissance — he was a historian, scholar, and humanist.
Here’s what you should know about him:
He’s often called the “first modern historian” because he wrote history in a new way, focusing on cause and effect, not just repeating events.
His most famous work is “History of the Florentine People” (Historiarum Florentini populi libri XII), where he tried to tell the story of Florence using real research, not myths.
Marsilio Ficino
Translated texts of Plato, Aristotle, and other ancient Greek Philosophers.
Argued for immortality of the soul.
Pico della Mirandola
Oration in the dignity of man, celebration of human potential for greatness
Niccolo Machiavelli
Wrote the prince to advise on the ruthless statecraft needed to unite his war torn and divided Italian homeland.
Ruthless pragmatic: The end justifies the means “machiavellian”
Baldassare Castiglione
The Book of the Courtier” describes the ideal Renaissance courtier — someone who is educated, skilled in the arts, athletic, well-mannered, and eloquent 1528
Isabella d’Este
most famous renaissance woman boen to the ferrara family and married the ruler of mantua.
Art patron who collected from greatest renaissance artists
What was special about Italian Renaissance Art?
Art commissioned by catholic church, guilds, wealthy, families like the medici.
Perspective illusion of two dimensional surface, a window to the world, foundation of painting for next 500 years.
Chiaroscuro realistic blending of light and shade to model forms. artist create paintings in which real people occupy real space.
Pyramid configuration
three dimensional pyramid configuration to create symmetrical and balance compositions
christian subjects, classical forms. inspired by greek and roman statues revive standards of beauty. Classical forms + christian subjects.
Michelanglo
David, condtrapposto like greece and re and sistine chapel ceiling.
raphael
school of athens, gathering of ancient philosophers from different eras. order, unity, symmetry
Donatello
donatellos david
Leon Battista Alberti
3 dimensional space and perspective. wrote de pictura 1435 explained rules of persectives
Flippp Brunelleschi
roman engineering principles to create The Dome of florence cathedral
Florence symbol of power, ingenuity, peity
Leonardo Da Vinci
mona lisa, diagrams of the human body, and the renaissance man
Eramus
prince of the humanists. Most influential northern renaissance humanist.
Praise of folly- satire that poked fun at greedy merchants, pompous priests, scholars, immortality, and hypocrisy of pope Julius ll. 1511
Northern Renaissance
occurred in europe north of the alps. Germany, France, England, and Netherlands
christian humanists
combine classical ideas of calmness and stoicism with christian ideas of piety, humility , and love
thomas moore
humanist scholar of england
lawyer, author, statements, lord chancellor, under Henry the Eight.
wrote utopia 1516 which is a novel describing an imaginary society, located off the mainland new world.
Jan van eyck
flemish artists, pioneer of oil painting
Ghent altarpiece and the Arnolfini wedding
