Based on the CliffsNotes 2nd addition
762134178 | 4 key characteristics of the renaissance | secularism individualism humanism materialism | |
762134179 | quattrocento | golden age of the renaissance | |
762134180 | Medici Popes | Leo X Clement VII Leo XI | |
762134181 | Cosimo de Medici | Dictator of Florence (well loved) | |
762134182 | Lorenzo de Medici | aka Lorenzo the Magnificent Patron of the arts | |
762134183 | Giovani de Medici | Pope Leo X Patron of the arts rebuilt St Peter's | |
762134184 | Humanism | glorified the individual and man's potential secular | |
762134185 | Machiavelli | Wrote The Prince "The end justifies the means" called for a strong leader to unite Italy | |
762134186 | Giovanni Pico della Mirandola | no limits to what man can accomplish | |
762134187 | Petrarch | Father of Humanism | |
762134188 | Leonardo Bruni | Wrote The History of the Florentine People | |
762134189 | Giovanni Boccaccio | Wrote The Decameron | |
762134190 | Baldassare Castiglion | Wrote The Courtier | |
762134191 | Christine de Pisan | Wrote The Book of the City of Ladies | |
762134192 | Johannes Gutenberg | Invented printing press | |
762134193 | Northern Renaissance | began late 1400s much more religious than the Italian renaissance based ideal world off of christian ideals | |
762134194 | Sir Thomas Moore | Wrote Utopia Introduced England to humanism | |
762134195 | Erasmus | Prince of humanists Wrote The Praise of Folly (criticized the church's superstion, ect. but still devout) | |
762134196 | Chaucer | Wrote the Canterbury Tales | |
762134197 | Jean Bodin | Wrote Six Books of the Commonwealth !!!Forerunner of absolutism!!! | |
762134198 | Hundred Years War | Weakened French nobles, thus giving king more power !!!absolutism!!! | |
762134199 | Star Chamber | Henry VII of England's court to check aristocratic power | |
762134200 | Reconquista | Spanish 800 year long struggle to drive Muslims out | |
762134201 | Hermandades | local spanish police created to strengthen royal justice | |
762134202 | Ferdinand - Isabella Marraige | United Aragon and Castile to create one Christian kingdom of Spain (Muslims left with Granada, until driven out) | |
762134203 | Giotto | Known for their frescos (eg. St Francis Preaching to Birds) | |
762134204 | Lorenzo Ghiberti | sculptor | |
762134205 | Donatello | did the first David | |
762134206 | Brunelleschi | Dome of Florence Cathedral | |
762134207 | Leonardo da Vinci | Renaissance man | |
762134208 | Michelangelo | Sistine chapel murals Carved the 'David' and 'La Pieta' | |
762134209 | Raphael | Considered to be the greatest painter of the renaissance Painted many Madonnas 'School of Athens' | |
762134210 | Frans Hals | Laughing Cavalier | |
762134211 | Rembrant | Did 'The Night Watch' | |
762134212 | Dürer | Engravings |