AP Euro Set 1
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AP Euro vocabulary for the middle ages, renaissance, and protestant reformation.
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Terms | Definitions |
|---|---|
 Italian Renaissance | time of transition from medieval to modern times characterized by intellectual and political expansion as well as the rebirth of culture |
| Jacob Burkhart | coined the term Renaissance or "rebirth" |
| city-states | different sections of land owned by the same country but ruled by different rulers |
| Republic of Florence | Cradle of the Renaissance. Medicis ruled. Starting point for Italian progress. |
| Medici Family | Ruled Florence during the Renaissance, became wealthy from banking, spent a lot of money on art, controlled Florence for about 3 centuries |
| Cosimo de Medici | The "patriarch" of the ruling family of Florence that held power throughout the 15th century. |
| Lorenzo de Medici | Italian statesman and scholar who supported many artists and humanists including Michelangelo and Leonardo and Botticelli (1449-1492) |
| Sforza Family | After 1450 this family ruled Milan as dukes, and continued to serve as leaders of the city for most of the Renaissance period. (1450-1535) |
| Papal States | some of the the most important renaissance city states in central Italy that included Rome and were ruled by the Pope. |
| Machiavelli The Prince | Writer that felt a Prince should be feared, not loved if he could not have both. |
| Cesare Borgia | Italian cardinal and military leader |
| Sack of Rome, 1527 | armies of Emperor Charles V (king of Spain); symbolized end of Renaissance in Italy |
| Charles V | Holy Roman emperor (1519-1558) and king of Spain as Charles I (1516-1556). He summoned the Diet of Worms (1521) and the Council of Trent (1545-1563). |
| Humanism | the doctrine emphasizing a person's capacity for self-realization through reason |
| Civic Humanism | a variant of republicanism indicating active, participatory, patriotic citizenship as well as the ethos and educational ideal that goes with it |
| Petrarch | The "father of humanism". He believed that everything should be written in latin. |
| Bocaccio The Decameron | A work that portrays an acquisitive, sensual, and worldly society through descriptions of merchants, friars, and husbands in a humorous way. |
| Lorenzo Valla | Humanist and author of On Pleasure. He defends the pleasures of the senses as the highest good. He was the father of modern historical criticism. (p.422) |
| Pico Della Mirandola Oration on the Dignity of Man | Oration on the Dignity of Man member of Platonic Academy, he looked for aspects of truth not revealed in Christian scriptures. He wrote one of the most famous Renaissance works on the nature of the human mind, saying that because man was created by God, they had potential for greatness, but could also choose a negative course. |
| Baldasare Castiglione Book of the Courtier | This book taught men and women how to behave when courting or being courted. |
| Virtu | quality of being a great man in whatever noble pursuit |
| Johann Gutenberg | Invented a movable printing press. It allowed mass publication and distribution of literature. |
| Quattrocentro | Latin for the 14th century. |
| Perspective | Creates 3D space on 2D art using converging lines, vanishing point, etc. |
| Chiaroscuro | Created a 3D effect using light and dark variations of colors. |
| Brunelleschi | Designed the dome of "Duomo de Florence". |
| Donatello | sculpted David standing in contrapasto after his victory over Goliath. |
| Masaccio | The ranaissance artist who led the way in establishing a new style of employing deep space, modeling , and anatomical correctness. |
| High Renaissance | Movement of art centered in Rome between between 1450 and 1527. |
| Leonardo da Vinci | Italian painter and sculptor and engineer and scientist and architect |
| Raphael The School of Athens | This man created this painting which showed numerous people discussing many ideas and two central characters pointing up and forward respectively to indicat the ideas of focusing on God and focusing on moving forward in life |
| Michelangelo | This was an artist who led the way for Renaissance masters from his David sculpture and his painting of the Sistine Chapel ceiling |
| Titian | He was the leading painter of the 16th-century Venetian school of the Italian Renaissance. |
| Mannerism | Mannerism is a period of European art that emerged from the later years of the Italian High Renaissance around 1520. |
| El Greco | Spanish painter (born in Greece) remembered for his religious works characterized by elongated human forms and dramatic use of color (1541-1614) |
| Northern Renaissance | Renewed interest in art, science, and literature in Northern city-states. |
| Christian Humanism | a movement that developed in northern Europe during the renaissance combining classical learning with the goal of reforming the catholic church |
| Erasmus In Praise of Folly | Erasmus was the only humanist to make a living through his writing. |
| Thomas More Utopia | Thomas More wrote about a perfect society. |
| Rabelais Gargantua | Rabelais studied Ancient Greek, and used this as he invented hundreds of new words, some of which became part of the French language. |
| Willian Shakespeare | William Shakespeare was an English poet and playwright, widely regarded as the greatest writer in the English language and the world's most famous dramatist. |
| Cervantes Don Quixote | Wrote one of the greatest peices of Spanish lit, it criticized excessive religious idealism and chivalric romance |
| Albrecht Durer | He created wood carvings that normally depicted apocalyptical scenes. |
| Fugger Family | The German equivalent of the Medici family in Italy. |
| Isabella d'Este | The "first lady of the renaissance". She was a big patron of the arts. |
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