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| 442082586 | What is the Hundred Years War? | A war fought between france and England over territory | |
| 442082587 | What was the impact of the Bubonic Plague (Black Plague)? | > took the lives of roughly 75 million European people >ranks for advancement were opened. | |
| 442082588 | what is a dowry? | Property or money brought by a bride to her husband on their marriage. | |
| 442082589 | What is a vernacular? | The language spoken by the ordinary people in a particular country or region. | |
| 442082590 | How were Ren. Artists different from Mid. Ages Artists? | Middle Ages: - gothic style - completely religious as far as their art goes - stiff (1 dimentional figures) - less emotion - generic faces - used gold to illumintae figures - lack of perspective - patronized mostly by the church Renaissance: - Increased emphasis on worldly things - Greek and Roman ideals - Used oil paints a lot - brighter colors, lots of emotion - real people and settings depicted - Popes patronized their art - free standing statues for the 3D effect | |
| 442082591 | Describe Middle Ages literature | >Based mostly on religion >Written in Latin >The churches were great patrons of the art and literature >Everything was hand written | |
| 442082592 | Describe the Renaissance literature | > Humanism and secularism was big >Focused on writings of the early church >Vernacular >Covered a wider variety of subjects >Focused on individualism >Increased use of the printing press | |
| 442082593 | What are patrons? | People who basically pay for an artists whole life support so they can focus on their art | |
| 442082594 | What were the major city-states in Italy? | Florence, Milan, Venice, Papal States, Kingdom of Naples | |
| 442082595 | What is the signori? | Dictators who controlled the communal governments | |
| 442082596 | What is an oligarchy? | A small group of people having control of a country | |
| 442082597 | What is the condotierri? | A leader of a troop of mercenaries in Italy. | |
| 442082598 | What is the Republic of Florence? | A city-state that was centered on the city of Florence | |
| 442082599 | Who are the Medici Family? | behind-the-scene rulers of Florence, established wealth through banking | |
| 442082600 | Who is Lorenzo de' Medici? | An Italian statesman and de facto ruler of the Florentine Republic during the Italian Renaissance. | |
| 442082601 | Who is Girolamo Savonarola? | He took control of Florence after the French invaded in 1494 in order to clean up the moral decay in the city. He was burned at the stake in 1498. | |
| 442082602 | Who is Machiavelli? | He was a political philosopher in during the Renissance Italy and he wrote the book The Prince. He believed power should be earned not inherited. | |
| 442082603 | What was the Sack of Rome? | An invasion of Rome carried out by Charles V, Holy Roman the Emperor (1527). | |
| 442082604 | Who is Charles V? | King of Spain whose conquest of Rome in 1527 symbolized the end of the Italian Renaissance. | |
| 442082605 | What is humanism? | An outlook of thought attaching prime importance to humans rather than divine or supernatural matters. | |
| 442082606 | Who is Petrarch? | Father of the Renaissance. He believed the first two centuries of the Roman Empire to represent the peak in the development of human civilization. | |
| 442082607 | Who is Leonardo Bruni? | historian who was the first to use the term "humanism, " he wrote an extensive history of the city of Florence. | |
| 442082608 | Who is Lorenzo Valla? | Expert on Latin, wrote "On False Donation of Constantine" which proved document granting the Catholic Church vast areas of land to be a forgery. Father of modern historical criticism. | |
| 442082609 | Who is Constantine? | The first Christian emperor to the Roman empire. | |
| 442082610 | Who is Baldassare Castiglione? | Wrote "The Courtier" which was about education and manners. It said that an upper class, educated man should know many academic subjects and should be trained in music, dance, and art. | |
| 442082611 | What is virtu? | Knowledge of or expertise in the fine arts. | |
| 442082612 | Who is John Gutenberg? | Inventor of the printing press by using movable type. The mass production of paper and the commercial production of manuscripts spread Renaissance ideas all over Europe. | |
| 442082613 | What is quattrocento? | The 15th century as a period of Italian art or architecture. | |
| 442082614 | Who is Giorgio Vasari? | Wrote "Lives of the Artists," a book of biographies of the greatest artists of the Renaissance. | |
| 442082615 | What is cinquecento? | The 16th century as a period of Italian culture, with a reversion to classical forms. | |
| 442082616 | What is perspective? | The art of drawing solid objects on a two-dimensional surface so as to give the right impression of their height, width, depth | |
| 442082617 | What is contrapposto? | Contrapposto is an Italian term that means counterpose. It is used in the visual arts to describe a human figure standing with most of its weight on one foot so that its shoulders and arms twist off-axis from the hips and legs | |
| 442082618 | Who is Brunelleschi? | Florentine architect who designed Il Duomo, a dome atop the city's cathedral, modeled after ancient Roman ruins | |
| 442082619 | Who is Donatello? | Sculptor who evoked classical Greek and Roman models. Probably exerted greatest influence of any Florentine artist before Michelangelo. | |
| 442082620 | Who is Sandro Botticelli? | One of the leading painters of the Florentine renaissance, developed a highly personal style. Painted The Birth of Venus and Springtime. | |
| 442082621 | What is the "High Renissance"? | High Renaissance, is the period denoting the apogee of the visual arts in the Italian Renaissance. | |
| 442082622 | Who is Raphael? | Important artist of the High Renaissance, his pudginess and exaggeration of features foreshadowed Mannerism; important work is Schoo of Athens | |
| 442082623 | Who is Michelangelo? | Painted the Sistine Chapel. Sculpted the statue of David. (the Pieta abd the dome on St. Peters Bisilica) | |
| 442082624 | Who is El Greco? | El Greco, born Doménikos Theotokópoulos, was a painter, sculptor and architect of the Spanish Renaissance. | |
| 442082625 | What is the Northern Renaissance? | The Northern Renaissance is the term used to describe the Renaissance in northern Europe, or more broadly in Europe outside Italy. | |
| 442082626 | What is Christian humanism? | The belief that human freedom and individualism are natural parts of life. | |
| 442082627 | Who is Erasmus? | A Dutch Renaissance humanist, Catholic priest, social critic, teacher, and theologian. Erasmus was a classical scholar who wrote in a pure Latin style. he wrote Is Praise of Folly. | |
| 442082628 | Who is Thomas More? | An English lawyer, social philosopher, author, statesman, and noted Renaissance humanist. He wrote Utopia. | |
| 442082629 | Who is Jan Van Eyck? | Flemish painter active in Bruges and is generally considered one of the most significant Northern European painters of the 15th century. | |
| 442082630 | Who is the Fugger family? | German mercantile and banking dynasty that dominated European business in the 15th16th centuries. | |
| 442082631 | Who is Christine de Pisan? | Author who challenged misogyny and stereotypes prevalent in the late medieval culture. | |
| 442082632 | Describe the status of upper-class women in Renaissance. | Upper-class women got what they wanted and didnt have to work for it. They got to enjoy all of the perks of the renaissance including the paintings, bright clothing and new money. | |
| 442082633 | Describe mairrage during the Renaissance. | People got married for one thing only. MONEY. $$$$$$ | |
| 442082634 | What is the Treaty of Tordesillas? | Divided the newly discovered lands outside Europe between Crown of Portugal and Crown of Castile along west of the Cape Verde islands. |
