Flash cards for chapter 11 of Bob Jones University's 10th grade history book.
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| 7984924971 | Renaissance | A French word meaning "rebirth." |  | 0 |
| 7984924972 | Humanism | An overemphasis on human worth and ability, leading man to glorify himself instead of God. |  | 1 |
| 7984924973 | Humanities | Included the study of history, science, and grammar, as well as classical literature and philosophy. AKA the liberal arts. |  | 2 |
| 7984924974 | Humanists | Those who studied the liberal arts. | 3 | |
| 7984924975 | Patrons | sponsors of artists. | 4 | |
| 7984924976 | Medici Family | Prominent Italians who had become extremely wealthy through commerce and banking. Perhaps the most famous of the Renaissance patrons. |  | 5 |
| 7984924977 | Lorenzo de Medici | The most notable and most generous patron of the Medici family. |  | 6 |
| 7984924978 | Francesco Petrarch | Father of Humanism. |  | 7 |
| 7984924979 | Baldassare Castiglione | wrote the "Courtier" |  | 8 |
| 7984924980 | Niccolo Machiavelli | Wrote The Prince |  | 9 |
| 7984924981 | Condottiere | Men that led mercenaries to fight battles for competing, warring states. |  | 10 |
| 7984924982 | Erasmus | wrote a new edition of the Greek New Testament. |  | 11 |
| 7984924983 | Thomas More | A man of deep piety who spent regular hours in prayer. He wrote "Utopia". |  | 12 |
| 7984924984 | Johannes Gutenberg | recognized as the man to put movable type printing into use in Europe. |  | 13 |
| 7984924985 | Miguel de Cervantes | Wrote Don Quixote Also wrote many satires on chivalry |  | 14 |
| 7984924986 | William Shakespeare | considered the greatest playwright of all time and the finest poet in the English language. | 15 | |
| 7984924987 | Giotto (di Bondone) | Father of Renaissance Painting known for his fresco paintings |  | 16 |
| 7984924988 | Frescoes | Paintings on wet plaster. |  | 17 |
| 7984924989 | Perspective | portraying a three-dimensional appearance on a flat surface. |  | 18 |
| 7984924990 | Masaccio | He added new techniques to painting. Used shading to he create a 3-D effect in his paintings |  | 19 |
| 7984924991 | Shading | Contrasting light and dark. | 20 | |
| 7984924992 | Sandro Botticelli | depicted forms with a bold line to give clarity and a sense of activity to his characters | 21 | |
| 7984924993 | Girolamo Savonarola | A Dominican friar who sought to bring moral reform to the city of Florence and to the Reform church. |  | 22 |
| 7984924994 | Leonardo da Vinci | Probably the best example of the so-called Renaissance man. He displayed interest in a wide range of fields. He often sketched his designs in a notebook first. |  | 23 |
| 7984924995 | Raphael | Completed an enormous number of paintings and frescoes including many paintings of Madonnas. |  | 24 |
| 7984924996 | Michelangelo (Buonarroti) | One of the most famous artists in all of history - painter and sculpter. | 25 | |
| 7984924997 | Sistine Chapel | The ceiling of this building was painted by Michelangelo. | 26 | |
| 7984924998 | Titian | The leading figure of the Venetian school of painting. Known for rich colors and portraits. | 27 | |
| 7984924999 | Tintoretto | The last of the great sixteenth century Venetian painters. "Little dyer" from Venice. | 28 | |
| 7984925000 | Albrecht Durer | best known for his engravings and woodcuts. | 29 | |
| 7984925001 | Hans Holbein | considered the finest portrait painter of the Northern Renaissance |  | 30 |
| 7984925002 | Jan van Eyck | One of the founders and an outstanding representative of the Flemish school of painters. |  | 31 |
| 7984925003 | Pieter Brughel | Helped develop and perfect the style of realism. He is best remembered for his genre paintings of scenes from everyday life. |  | 32 |
| 7984925004 | Genre Painting | A type of painting that depicts scenes of everyday life. | 33 | |
| 7984925005 | Lorenzo Ghiberti | was chosen to design the doors of the baptistery in Florence made the famous "Gates of Paradise" |  | 34 |
| 7984925006 | Filippo Brunelleschi | won the competition to build the cathedral dome of Florence. |  | 35 |
| 7984925007 | Donatello | The leading sculptor of the early Renaissance and made the FIRST FREEHAND sculpture. | 36 | |
| 7984925008 | Plainsong | The most prominent type of musical composition during the Middle Ages. AKA Gregorian chant. | 37 | |
| 7984925009 | Josquin Depres | One of the leading figures in music during the early Renaissance | 38 | |
| 7984925010 | Motets | Unaccompanied Latin songs that combined different melodies and words with a plainsong melody. | 39 | |
| 7984925011 | Chansons | Lighthearted songs that set secular lyric poems to music. | 40 | |
| 7984925012 | Palestrina | The most famous composer of church music during the Renaissance was this Italian composer. | 41 | |
| 7984925013 | Polyphonic | Music consisting of many melodies. | 42 | |
| 7984925014 | Florence, Italy | Birthplace of the Renaissance | 43 | |
| 7984925015 | Venice, Italy | City that controlled important trade routes to the East. Canals serve as its "streets". | 44 | |
| 7984925016 | Pieta | The name of Michelangelo's famous sculpture of Mary mourning over and holding Christ after his Crucifixion. | 45 | |
| 7984925017 | Renaissance music | more secular the lute was the most popular instrument popular interest and number of musicians increased. | 46 | |
| 7984925018 | The Prince | The written work of Machiavelli that promoted the secular state freeing the government from religious principles. |  | 47 |
| 7984925019 | Praise of Folly | Erasmus's work pointing out the evils of the Renaissance. |  | 48 |
