Chapter 15 sections 1 & 2
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Terms | Definitions |
|---|---|
 Isabella d'Este | A great patron of the arts from Mantua who bought many paintings |
| Michelangelo | sculptor & painter who painted the Sistine Chapel ceiling |
| Petrarch | scholar who wrote many famous love poems (sonnets) |
| Holbein | German artist that painted portraits of important people in the Renaissance |
| Titian | Italian painter who got rich; had rich colors in his paintings |
| Rafael | Italian painter of frescos and sculptor of madonnas at the Vatican |
| Gutenberg | German who invented the printing press to create more books (Bibles) |
| Machiavelli | author of THE PRINCE, an essay on how government should work (fear is better than being loved) |
| Brueghel | Flemish artist who painted lively scenes, countrysides, and criticized cruelty he saw in life |
| Thomas More | English humanist who published UTOPIA in 1516, discussing the ideal society |
| Erasmus | Most famous Renaissance Dutch humanist that wrote PRAISE OF FOLLY |
| humanists | European scholars who studied Greek and Roman literature, history and the arts |
| Castiglione | Italian diplomat who wrote the most famous book of Renaissance on manners |
| Shakespeare | great English playwright who wrote ROMEO AND JULIET |
| Leonardo da Vinci | Scientist, architect, engineer and artist who painted the MONA LISA |
| Giotto | magnificent early realist painter of the Renaissance who, according to legend, created such a lifelike fly that an observer tried to brush it off |
| Renaissance | a "rebirth" of interest in philosophy, science, and art which began in Italy |
| religion | Many of the humanists in the Renaissance were also Christians and felt tension between their scientific studies and what else? |
| Flemish School | A group of painters in Flanders who developed their own style of oil painting, led by Van Eyck brothers |
| perspective | technique of Renaissance artists, making distant objects smaller than those in the foreground, giving the illusion of depth |
| Italian Renaissance | Which artists painted figures based on models of Greek and Roman art that had figures with rippling muscles? |
| Northern Renaissance | Which artists painted figures more like 1500s people, bald, imperfect and frail? |
| Renaissance ideas | These were able to spread through the mountain passes and by river, and invention of the printing press helped too. |
| Renaissance sonnet | typically a love poem containing 3 quatrains (three 4-line stanzas) + one couplet (two rhyming lines); with 10 syllables per line |
| Italy | The country where the Renaissance began |
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