Ch. 14 Sec. 2 Flashcards

91309882	Jan and Hubert van Eyck	Used oil paint because it blended easily; revealed personality; used different colors; realistic paintings	0
91309883	Albrecht Dürer	(1471-1528) German artist who visited Italy in the late 1400s. He was the foremost Northern Renaissance artist, and specialized in the woodcut technique. He mastered proportions, perspective, realism, and modeling. Painted numerous self-portraits.	1
91309884	Pieter Bruegel	captured scenes from peasant weddings, dances, harvests; painted proverbs that taught morals; portrayed large numbers of people; used vivid details and rich colors	2
91309885	Peter Paul Rubens	is the most famous Baroque artist who studied Michelangelo in Italy and took that Renaissance style to the next level of drama, motion, color, religion and animation, which is portrayed in his paintings spoke 6 launguages	3
91309886	WIlliam Shakespeare	Greatest playwright of all time; wrote MacBeth, King Lear, Hamlet, Romeo and Juliet; introduced new words to the English language	4
91309887	Johann Gutenberg	developed Printing Press and printed the Bible...books became cheaper, easier to produce and more available..	5
92207740	Erasmus	huminest wanted church reforms wrote the prase of folly	6
92207741	Sir Thomas More	wrote Utopia	7
92207742	Rabelais	french huminest, wrote Gargantua And Pantagruel (comic)	8
92207743	Cervantes	wrote Don Quixote	9