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590012957What was the Renaissance?An explosion of Artistic + Literary Expression A time of Economic Growth A celebration of the individual and the material (The Secular)
590012958Term for the essence of active manlinessVirtu
590012959Benevuto Cellini was considered the author of what self-absorbed type of writingAutobiography
590012960Who did the Renaissance impact?Primarily the Elite
590012961Location of the RenaissanceItaly The Northern Renaissance (The low countries; Spain;etc)
590012962This location became the "Queen of the Adriatic," and the link between Europe and the East?Venice
590012963This location became the center of European Banking during the Quattro cento (15th Century)?Florence
590012964Merchant families used their wealth to become near- hereditary rulers of the cities. Family in Milan? Family in Florence?The Sforza in Milan The Medici in Florence
590012965The Medici's were founded by?Banking family founded by Giovanni de Medici (1360-1429)
590012966What Medici was known as know as "the magnificent," and was a patron of the arts?Lorenzo de Medici
590012967One wall of the Medici family chapel painted by _____ in 1463, depicting Cosmo (on the white horse in the red hat).Benozzo Gozzoli
590012968Renaissance architect responsible for The Duomo (Dome) of the Basilica di Santa Maria del Fiore (completed 1436)?Filippo Brunelleschi (1377-1446)
590012969Who created the façade of Santa Maria Novella in Florence (completed 1471)?Leon Battista Alberti (1404-1472)
590012970Name given to Ghiberti's doors to the eastern entrance of the baptistery doors of the basilica in Florence by Michelangelo (Completed 1452).Gates of Paradise
590012971Several examples of Donatello's (1386-1466) pieces of art?David (1446): Little Statue of David Feast of Herod (1425) Gattamelata (Horse Statue)
590012972Characteristics of the paintings of the Middle AgesReligious Themes, e.g. Madonna and child, icons Lacked perspective: two dimensional
590012973Renaissance paintings had religious paintings, but an increase in this type of painting?Secular
590012974Renaissance paintings utilized?Perspective
590012975Individuals in renaissance paintings were depicted in?Contemporary dress
590012976These type of renaissance paintings increased?Portraits
590012977During the Renaissance individual artists developed?Unique style
590012978Author of Lives of the Most Excellent Painters, Sculptors, and Architects (1550) a.k.a. Lives of the ArtistGiorgio Vasari's
590012979Who was the 1st Renaissance painter?Giotto
590012980Giotto painted?The Betrayal of Christ (1305) Meeting at the Golden Gate (1305)
590012981Masaccio (1401-1428) painted?The Tribute Money (1420s): Guy in short clothes The Expulsion from the Garden of Eden (1420s)
590012982Botticelli (1440-1510) painted?Portrait of Dante (1495) Portrait of a young man (1483) Primavera (spring) (1482) The Birth of Venus (1485)
590012983Raphael (1483-1520) painted?The School of Athens (1509) Madonna of the Meadow (1506)
590012984Who was The Renaissance Man?Da Vinci
590012985Leonardo Da Vinci (1452-1519) painted?Lady and the Ermine (1483-90) Mona Lisa (La Gioconda) (1505) The Last Supper (1498) Self Portrait (1512) The Vitruvian Man (1492)
590012986Michelangelo (1475-1564) sculpted?David (1504) Pieta (1499) Moses (1515) Slave (dying) (1513) The Creation of Adam; Sistine Chapel (1510) The Last Judgment; Sistine Chapel (1537-41)
590012987Titian (1477-1576) painted?Assumption of the Virgin (1516-18) Bacchanal of the Andrians (1523-24) Venus of Urbino (1538)
590012988Sofonisba Anguissola (1535-1625) painted?Portrait of the Artist's Sisters Playing Chess (1555) Portrait of Minerva Anguissola
591748308The humanist devoted themselves to the liberal arts, also known as?Studia humanitatis
591748309Much like Italian painters, while the humanists were secular, they didnt?They didn't abandon religion.
591748310The Renaissance had its roots in the writing of?Dante Alugheri (1265-1321)
591748311Dante Alugheri wrote?The Divine Comedy
591748312Author of sonnets to Laura and the "father of humanism"Petrach
591748313Famous novel by Boccaccio about 10 young people who flee Florence during an outbreak of the Black Death?The Decameron (1353)
591748314Advocate of "civic humanism"Leonardo Bruni
591748315Concept that the true Renaissance man participated in politics and government and looked to classical Greece and Rome as modelsCivic Humanism
591748316Leonardo Bruni was the author of this1st modern work?History of the Florence People
591748317Who proved the "Donation of Constantine" through which Emperor Constantine allegedly gave the Papal states to the Papacy, to be a forgery?Lorenzo Valla
591748318Speech given by Pico della Miradola that averred that man is in charge of his own destiny?"Oration on the dignity of man" (1486)
591748319The "Oration on the dignity of man" Believe that all ages held?Believe that all ages held "precious nuggets of universal truth," for which he was accused of heresy
591748320Author of The Book of the courtier (1528)?Baldassare Castiglione
591748321What did the The Book of the courtier illustrate?Illustrated the proper behavior of the ideal Renaissance gentle man and woman
591748322Two works by Niccolo Machiavelli (1469-1529)The Prince (1513): Portrayed the government not as it ideally should be, but as it was Discourses (1513): It demonstrates his hope in humanity and the virtues of a Republic and the rule of the people
591748323Famous woman humanist and author of "The Book of the City of the Ladies," which called for peace and recognition of women's contributions in life?Christine de Pizan
591748324Pope who hired Bramate to design St. Peter's Basilica and Michelango to paint the Sistine Chapel?Pope Julius II (1503-1513)
591748325Name two designers/architects of St. Peter's Basilica?Bramate Michelango
591748326What corrupt figure sold indulgences that led to Martin Luther's 95 theses?Leo X (Giovanni de Medici) (1513-1521
591748327Two masters of nepotism?Sixtus IV (1471-1484) Alexander VI (Rodrigo Borgia; 1492-1503)
591748328Dominican monk who led the Bonfire of the Vanities in FlorenceSavonarola (1452-1498)
591873405The #1 Christian Humanist during the Renaissance?Desiderius Erasmus (1466-1536)
591873406Desiderius Erasmus wrote?The Praise of Folly (1509) Handbook of a Christian Knight (1503)
591897560One major difference between the Northern and Italian Renaissance?Far less secular than the Italian Renaissance
591897561Fantastically wealthy banking family of the Northern Renaissance?Fuggers
591897562Founder of the Fugger family?Hans Fugger
591897563Who rose the Fugger family name?Jacob "the rich"
591897564Scientist of the Northern Renaissance who developed new mathematical principles?Regiomontanus Nicholas of Cusa
591897565Who developed the heliocentric theory?Copernicus
591897566Book by Thomas a' Kempis stressing a personal relationship with God?Imitation of Christ
591897567Groups founed by Gerard Groote that stressed the Modern Devotion, a personal relationship with Christ?Brothers + Sisters of the Common Life
591897568Brothers of the Common Life preached the?Modern Devotion
591873407English humanism was championed by?Elizabeth I (1558-1603)
591873408Name a few writers of the English Renaissance and a major work by each?Geoffrey Chaucer: The Canterbury Tales (1387-1400) Christopher Marlowe: Dr. Faustus Edmund Spenser; The Faeire Queen William Shakespeare: Hamelot, Macbeth, Othello...
591873409Great work by St. Thomas More that criticized capitalism?Utopia (1516)
591873410New monarch of France, the "spider king," who encouraged the renaissance?Louis XI (1423-1483):
591873411Christian Humanist from France who wrote the bawdy Gargantua and Pantagruel?Francois Rabelais (1494-1553):
5918734121st Modern skeptic and author of Essays?Michel de Montaigne (1533-1592)
591873413French supporter of politique, the belief that affiars of state should be conducted free of religious ideology?Jean Bodin
591873414Spanish cardinal and statesman, was a noted humanist who advised Ferdinand and Isabella?Ximenez de Cisneros
591873415Great work by Miguel de Cervantes that is considered to be one of the greatest perhaps the first, novel ever written?Don Quixote (1605-1615):
591873416Early 15th century leader of Mantua and art patron?Isabella d'Este
591873417Duchess of Urbino and subject of Castiglione's Book of the Courtier?Elisabetta Gonzaga
591873418Queen of France (1547-1559) and art patron?Catherine de Medici
591873419_____ and archers were raised from the lower classes to challenge the mounted knight?Pikemen
591873420This England new Monarach was founded by Henry VII following the War of the Roses?Tudor Dynasty
591873421This Chamber was used to curb challenges to Henry VII's rule?The Star Chamber
591873422France's new monarch ruled by ______ line of the Capetian DynastyThe Valois
591873423This French agreed to the Concordat of Bologna (1516) with Pope Leo X which nullified the Pragmatic Sanction of Bourges but granted the French king the power of lay investitureKing Francis I
591873424Kingdoms of Aragon and Castile were united in 1469 through the marriage of?Ferdinand and Isabella
591873425This group purged the Spanish Church of abuses?Inquisition
591873426Muslim convertsMoriscos
591873427Jewish convertsMarranos
591873428This HRE empire emerged as the most powerful ruler in the world?Charles V (1516-1556)

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