The Renaissance
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Italian | English |
|---|---|
 Renaissance | Rebirth, period of great intellectual and artistic activity in Italy |
| Humanist/Humanism | Study of ancient Greek and Roman culture |
| De Medici | Family of bankers who beautified |
| Lorenzo de Medici | Made Florence most glorious city in Europe |
| Petrarch | "Sonnets to Laura"- Love poems to an ideal women- classical education was the study of the ancient classics and Latin. He was a humanist |
| Machiavelli | "The Prince"- Essay how government actually worded. the End justifies the Mean. |
| Machiavellian | Use deceit to get what you want |
| Castiglione | "The Book of Courtier"- Refined behavior in society |
| Realism | Use of life-like and realistic art |
| Perspective | Depth on flat canvas |
| Giotto | Realist painter- fly on painting |
| Leonardo Da Vinci | Many talents- Last Supper-Mona Lisa- Mirror Writing- "Renaissance Man" |
| Michelangelo | Painted ceiling of Sistine Chapel- Preferred sculpting- Designed St Peter's basilica-David-Moses-Pieta |
| Raphael | Hired to beautify Vatican-"The school of Athens"-Madonnas |
| Titian | First painter to become rich through his art- "The Assumption of the Virgin" |
| Botticelli | "the birth of Venus"-Mystical-non religious themes |
| Northern Renaissance | Germany, Belgium, Netherlands, France, England (flanders) |
| Printing, printing press | helped spread ideas |
| Johann Gutenburg | Developed moveable type printing press |
| Erasmus | "in Praise of Folly"-ridiculed church |
| Thomas More | "utopia"-ideal society |
| Jan van Eyck | "The Marriage of Alnofini"- invented oil paints and paintings |
| Francois Rabelais | Wrote in French- Garagantua and Pantagruel |
| Miguel de Cervantes | Wrote in Spanish-Don Quixote |
| William Shakespeare | Writer. Characters struggle with questions of morality |
| Pieter Brueghel | Painted peasants and the countryside |
| Albrecht Durer | Copper engravings and woodcutting-self portraits-four horsemen of the Apocalypse |
| Hans Holbein | Portraits. Erasmus. Thomas More. King Henry the VII |
| Sofonisba Anguissola | Female artist. King Phillip II of Spain |
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