The Renaissance Flashcards
Renaissance is Italian for
Rebirth
Year
1400-1600
What is The Renaissance
The birth of the idea of artistic, intellectual, individual, achievement of mankind equals humanism
What is humanism?
The study of classic ancient Greek and Roman works
Where is the Renaissance?
When
Begins in Florence Italy and spreads to all of Europe
Late 1300s to 1600s
Why in Europe?
The black plague equals location for trade especially because of the downfall of the ottoman empire
What is the result of the bubonic plague?
the result of the bubonic plague is that increase social mobility
What is social mobility
Being able to move up and down in a social class
What is the Renaissance remembered for?
Artistic and literary achievements
Artists of the Renaissance
Raphael
Michaelangelo
Da Vinci
How were michaelangelo and da van I able to get an exact replica of peoples muscles in their art?
They dissected cadavers
Early writers:
Dante Alighieri
Petrarch
Machiavelli
Niccolo Machivalli Year What kind of writer What’s his most famous work and year He is a.... which is.....
1469-1527
Humanist writer
The prince in 1513
Diplomat=someone in gov’t who negotiates with other countries
Early writers:
Where was Machiavellian and Alighieri from? Where was Petrarch from?
Where was Shakespeare and Chaurce from?
Italy
England
The Renaissance is the expression of___
Humanistic thought
