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| 162233674 | Jacob Burckhardt | claimed the Renaissance period was in distinct contrast to the Middle Ages | |
| 162233675 | Cosimo de' Medici | unofficial ruler of republic of Florence in late 1300-early 1400 | |
| 162233676 | Sforza Family | ruled Duchy of Milan; major art patron | |
| 162233677 | Isabella d'Este | most famous Renaissance female ruler | |
| 162233678 | Condottieri | leaders of private armies hired by cities for military purposes | |
| 162233679 | Girolamo Savanarola | established a theocracy in Florence after Medici removed from power. Burned at the stake after French were removed. | |
| 162233680 | Charles VIII | led French invasions of Italy (battleground between France and Spain) | |
| 162233681 | Niccolo Machiavelli | The Prince, modeled after Cesare Borgia (son of Pope) | |
| 162233682 | The Prince | "ends justifies the means" mentality. Served as source for gaining and maintaining power | |
| 162233683 | Humanism | Revival of Great/Roman philosophy, rejected Aristotelian views and medieval scholasticism | |
| 162233684 | Civic Humanism | education should prepare leaders in civic affairs | |
| 162233685 | Petrarch | first modern writer and saw Medieval period as Dark Ages | |
| 162233686 | Who was the Father of Humanism? | Petrarch | |
| 162233687 | Who was the first to use the term humanism and to write a history of Florence? | Leonardo Bruni | |
| 162233688 | Lorenzo Valla | Latin scholar who translated Roman manuscripts | |
| 162233689 | Marsilio Ficino | translated Plato's works into Latin | |
| 162233690 | Who founded the Platonic Academy in Florence? | Marsilio Ficino | |
| 162233691 | Who wrote the Oration on the Dignity of Man? | Pico della Mirandola | |
| 162233692 | Pico della Mirandola | glorified humans, in contrast with medival idea that humans were inherently sinful | |
| 162233693 | Baldassare Castiglione's most famous work? | wrote the Book of the Courtier | |
| 162233694 | Baldassare Castiglione's impact? | Emphasized a Renaissance man | |
| 162233695 | Johann Gutenberg | made printing press; spread humanistic literature to rest of Europe | |
| 162233696 | What city was the leader of Renaissance art in the 1400s? | Florence | |
| 162233697 | What city became the center of Renaissance art in the 1500s until 1527? | Rome | |
| 162233698 | Giorgio Vasari | Renaissance art historian who detailed lives of Renaissance artists | |
| 162233699 | Pope Alexander VI, Julius II, and Leo X have what in common? | They all commissioned fortunes in Renaissance art | |
| 162233700 | chairoscuro | dark and light contrast for illision of depth | |
| 162233701 | Sfumato | blurring of lines in painting; developed by Leonardo | |
| 162233702 | Giotto | first Renaissance artist | |
| 162233703 | Mosaccio | painted first real, nude human figures | |
| 162233704 | Sandro Botticelli | painter of Birth of Venus and La Primavera | |
| 162233705 | Michelangelo | Sistine Chapel; sculptures: David, the Pieta | |
| 162233706 | Raphael | School of Athens and painted numerous Madonna/Child works | |
| 162233707 | Leonardo | Mona Lisa; The Last Supper | |
| 162233708 | Titian | greatest painter of the Venetian School | |
| 162233709 | Free-standing sculptures | designed to be seen in the round; glorification of human body; contrapposto stance | |
| 162233710 | Ghiberti | Gates of Paradise; bronze doors | |
| 162233711 | Donatello | sculpter; David | |
| 162233712 | Filippo Brunelleschi | architect of cathedrals such as Il Duomo in Florence | |
| 162233713 | What movement especially emphasized early church writings (New Testament)? | Christian Humanism | |
| 162233714 | What movement emphasized education and the power of human intellect to bring about change/moral improvement? | Christian Humanism | |
| 162233715 | Who wrote In Praise of Folly? | Erasmus | |
| 162233716 | In Praise of Folly | criticized the immorality of Church; "Erasmus laid the egg that Luther hatched" | |
| 162233717 | Thomas More's Utopia | created an ideal society; saw that accumulation of property/gap between rich and poor was root cause of society's evils | |
| 162233718 | Jacques Lefevre d'Etables | French humanist; produced 5 versions of Psalms | |
| 162233719 | Francesco Ximenes de Cisneros | reformed Spanish clergy; Grand Inquisitor of Spanish Inquisition | |
| 162233720 | Francois Rableis | secular works portrayed confidence in human nature and Renaissance tastes | |
| 162233721 | Who wrote Gargantua and Pantagruel, which satirized French society and monastic orders? | Francois Rableis | |
| 162233722 | Michel de Montaigne | developed the essay form | |
| 162233723 | Skepticism | promoted by Michel de Montaigne, stating that skeptic must be cautious before suspending judgement | |
| 162233724 | William Shakespeare | English Renaissance author; Elizabethan era; | |
| 162233725 | Miguel de Cervantes's Don Quixote | masterpiece of Spanish literature that was critical of religious idealism and chivalric romance | |
| 162233726 | Flemish style origin? | started in Northern Renaissance of Low Countries | |
| 162233727 | Characteristic of Flemish style | detailed paintings; emotional; death; influenced by Italian Renaissance; oil paints | |
| 162233728 | Jan Van Eyck | most famous Flemish painter; painted Arnolfini and his Wife | |
| 162233729 | Bosch | art often surreal and focused on death | |
| 162233730 | Peter Brueghel the Elder | not influenced by Italian Renaissance; focused on lives of ordinary people | |
| 162233731 | Albrecht Durer | Foremost N. Renaissance artist; mastered Italian Renaissance techniques (proportion, perspective, modeling) | |
| 162233732 | Hans Holbein the Younger | Premier portrait artist | |
| 162233733 | The Ambassadors painting | painted by Hans Holbein the Younger which expressed major themes of the era: exploration, religious discord, and death | |
| 162233734 | Fugger family (Jacob Fugger) | patronized art in Northern Renaissance | |
| 162233735 | Mannerism | art style against High Renaissance ideals of simplicity and realism; often used unnatural colors and exaggerated shapes | |
| 162233736 | El Greco | mannerist from Spain; created the Burial of Count Orgaz |
