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Terms | Definitions |
|---|---|
 dowry | money or property brought by a woman to her husband at marriage |
| Marco Polo | Venetian merchant and traveler. His accounts of his travels to China offered Europeans a firsthand view of Asian lands and stimulated interest in Asian trade. |
| Cathay | China |
| Renaissance | rebirth |
| Petrarch | an Italian poet famous for love lyrics (1304-1374) |
| Renaissance Humanism | the doctrine emphasizing a person's capacity for self-realization through reason, fifteenth and sixteenth century intellectual movement centered in Italy that valued scholarship, language study, the arts, and particularly the ancient Greek and Latin classics in order to begin developing a worldview that could celebrate the human being as the unique pinnacle of God's creation |
| L'uomo Universale | universal man, renaissance man, applies to Leonardo da Vinci |
| Patron of the Arts | people who support artists, especially financially. |
| Alfred Nobel | invented dynamite, chemist, Nobel peace prize |
| Machiavelli | a statesman of Florence who advocated a strong central government (1469-1527) |
| doge | The ruler of Venice |
| Excessive Individualism | They disregard the opinions of other group members and fail to consider the common good. |
| Cellini | Gold Smith and sculptor who was certain of his own personal genius that he wrote about in his autobiography so that the whole world might appreciate it. |
| The Prince | Written by machiavelli, described that power is more important, "better to be feared than loved" |
| statecraft | The art of conducting state affairs. |
| Components of church | sanctuary, bell tower, baptistery |
| Museums of Florence | Uffizl, Academia |
| Frescoes | paintings made on wet plaster walls |
| Donatello | Florentine sculptor famous for his lifelike sculptures (1386-1466) |
| Raphael | (1483-1520) Italian Renaissance painter; he painted frescos, his most famous being The School of Athens. |
| Northern Humanists | Explored education, classical learning and religion. |
| Ruben | leader of flemish school |
| Rembrandt | leader of Dutch masters, Dutch painter, who painted portraits of wealthy middle-class merchants and used sharp contrasts of light and shadow to draw attention to his focus |
| Riksmuseum | Amsterdam museum |
| Velasquez | El Greco |
| Senoria | your honor |
| Second and third Romes | Constantinople, Kiev |
| Titian | Greatest Renaissance painter in Venice, used vivid color and movement, which was the opposite of the subtle colors and static figures in Florentine paintings. RED COLORS |
| 5 Italian powers | Naples, Papal states, Florence, Milan, Venice |
| Woolmakers | sponsored contest for Florentine baptistery |
| Da Vinci | Inventor, Painter, designed Florence, Mona Lisa |
| Michelangelo | This was an artist who led the way for Renaissance masters from his David sculpture and his painting of the Sistine Chapel ceiling |
| Mehmet II | "The Conqueror," conquered Constantinople |
| Valla | tried to purify Latin |
| Great Council | the group that had to agree in order for king John to collect taxes |
| Peace of Lodi | Made in 1454, this ended a war among Milan, Florence, and Venice. Cosimo de Medici made a lasting peace by having an alliance between Milan, Naples, and Florence on one side, and Venice and the Papal States on the other. Lasted for 40 years, and represents one of earliest appearances in European history of a diplomatic balance of power for maintaining peace. |
| Botticelli | One of the leading painters of the Florentine renaissance, developed a highly personal style. The Birth of Venus |
| Charles VIII | French King who responded to Ludovico's call for help and invaded Italy. Conquered Florence, Papal States, Naples. |
| Francesco Sforza | The Duke of Florence and the old ruler of the city-states of Italy |
| Bruni | his New Cicero indentified "classical Latin" as well as the foundations of civic humanism |
| Castiglione | Wrote The Courtier which was about education and manners and had a great influence. It said that an upper class, educated man should know many academic subjects and should be trained in music, dance, and art. |
| Vasari | Artist who in 1550, coined the term "Renaissance" to capture the sense of artistic advancement and genius of a new age that rivaled the achievement of the Roman masters |
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