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Terms | Definitions |
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 francis I | king of france who hired italian artists architects to rebuild the castle at fontainebleau, which became the showcase of the french renaissance and introduce renaissance into north europe |
| albrecht durer | german artist who apprenticed in italy. son of a goldsmith. produced woodcuts and engravings of religious subjects and classic myths, realistic landscapes, and portrait. emphasised realism |
| hans holbein | influenced by durer. painted portraits that looked photographic and royal family of king henry VIII of england |
| jan van eyck | great flemish(from flanders) painter. blended oil based paints with layers. showed realistic detail a personality in subjects. influenced many others |
| pieter bruegel | flemish painter who used realistic details. painted peasant scenes and illistrated proverbs and gave life and feeling. inspired 2 sons and 3 grandsons |
| desiderius erasmus | christian humanist of hollland. recieved many honors for writings and wrote the praise of folly, which poked fun at greedy merchants, pompous priests and heartsick lovers. thought to improve society people should study the bible |
| thomas more | christian humanist of england. wrote the book utopia to show society a better model bc society with out greed, corruption, crime, or war |
| utopia | means no place in greek but in enligsh came to mean ideal place, like the book |
| francois rabelais | french humanist who wrote a comic adventure in french- gargantua and pantagruel. believed human beings are basically good. humor was earthy but made serious points about nature of humanity, education and govt |
| william shakespear | greatest playwrite. from england, lived in london. revealed the souls of men and women with deep understanding of human beings. tragedies- macbeth, king lear, hamlet, romeo and juliet, comedy- a midsummer nights dream |
| elizabethan age | the renaissance in england during the rule of queen elizabeth I |
| queen elizabeth I | of england, well educated, knew many laguages, wrote poetry and patron for many artists |
| johann gutenberg | craftsman from germany, reinvented moveable type for europe, invented printing press |
| printing press | machine that presses paper agaisnt a try full of inked movable type, invented by gutenberg |
| gutenberg bible | first full sized book printed with movable type on the printing press |
| impacts of printing press | books became cheap, ideas spread quickly, encouraged learning, increas in literacy rate, writing in vernacular language increased, people interpreted the bible themselves |
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