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What does the term Renaissance mean ?
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rebirth
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What does the Renaissance refer historically?
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a philosophical and artistic movement that began in Italy in the early 1300s AD.
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Why is the Renaissance so important?
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It changed to way people looked at God, the world and society(each other)
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How did the Renaissance begin?
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In Italy, where it began, there were daily reminders of the once great Roman Empire.
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Why was Italy a natural place for the Renaissance to reawaken?
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1)ruins of Roman Empire
2)Rome as capital city w/ Popes and Catholic church 3)Crusades and trade 4)Italians were interested in studying the humanities |
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How did the Renaissance begin?
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the tridition of Rome lived on through the Popes, who made Rome the center of Roman Catholocism.
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How did the Renaissance begin?
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the crusades ,and trade with Africa and Southwest Asia, brought Italians in contact with the Byzantines whose scholars had preserved classical Greek and Roman writings
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How did the Renaissance begin?
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Italian scholars began reading these classical Greek and Roman writings, developing an area of study know as the humanities
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the humanities focused on the study of 4 things
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1)grammer
2)rhetoric 3)history 4)poetry-using classical texts |
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rhetoric is the
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art of using language to communicate
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the study of the hummanities led to
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1)a desire to know how things worked
2)leading a meaningful life 3)to becoming actively involved in supporting education, the arts, and science |
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The Renaissance included viewing one's existence as more than simply preparing for the afterlife...it brought about the belief in
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1)HUMAN dignity
2)HUMAM importance 3)HUMAN achievement (emphasis on HUMAN) |
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a new birth of ideas, culture, art, writing ,and scientific discoveries known as
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the renaissance period
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what changed the course of Western Civilization?
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the outpouring of creativity of the Renaissance
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Wealthy Italian family who were bankers and then rulers of the city-state
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Medici family
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Who from the Medici family became a great patron of the arts and influenced Florence's artisic awakening?
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Lorenzo Medici
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people who specialize in the humanities are called
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humanists
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Humanis displayed what kind of approach to learning that had been lacking?
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Critical thinking
they compared 2 versions to determine the most authentic |
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Humanist supported 2 things
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education
arts |
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Italian writers (3)
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1)Petrarch
2)Machiavelli 3)Castiglione |
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Believed that by imitating classical Greek and Roman writers one could become a virtuous(moral) person
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Francesco Petrarch
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Francesco Petrarch's view of the study of the writtings of ancient Greek and Rome became known as
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classical education
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What is the name of the greatest love poem written by Francesco Petrarch about an imaginary ideal woman?
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"Laura"
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What led to the tension humanist felt between their commitment to the study of the ancients and christianity?
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Humanist felt important to enjoy life here and put spiritual concerns off--thought this hurt their chances for salvation
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Where the humanist deeply commited to christian teachings?
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yes; this is why they felt torn between the two life here and salvation
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He believed that by imitating classical Greek and Roman writers a person could understand and participate in the best forms of GOVERNMENT AND POLITICS
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Niccolo' Machiavelli
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What did Machiavelli write?
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"The Prince"
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What separated Machiavelli from other humanists?
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his lack of concern for marality that he wrote about in "The Prince"
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Who used fictional dialogues(conversations) to express proper, refined behavior for ladies and gentleman in a polite society?
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Baldassare Castiglione
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Most famous book of the Renaissance written by Castiglione was
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The Book of the Courtier
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Art in the Renaissance was
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realism-life like depections using perspective to create sense of depth
rugged countryside that they knew -not Holy Land like earlier artist |
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Medieval Age art focused on
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life beyond everyday activities
religious themed depicted formal and stylized people |
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The artist were funded by wealthy people who paid the artist to work and are called
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benefactors
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a successful FEMALE artist best known for her self portraits and portrait of Phillip II
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Sofonisba Angiussola
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Renaissance painters made their works life like by making distant objects smaller than those in the foreground this technique is
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perspective
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This artist painting was so life like that an admirer tried to brush off a fly from the canvas..the fly was part of the painting
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Giotto
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This artist used light and shadows to create a sense of depth in his painting
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Massacio
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HIGH RENAISSANCE(late 1400s-early 1500s) 4 famous painters
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Leonardo da Vinci
Michelangelo Buonarroti Raphael Titian |
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Da Vinci was one of the most famous of the Renaissance
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artists
sculptors engineers architects scientists |
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Da Vinci used what to help his painting?
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science experiments-enhance paintings
math- for organizing space anotomy-draw human figure |
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Da Vinci painted
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The Last Supper
Mona Lisa |
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Da Vinci had first diagrams of
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flying- helicopters
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Michelangelo Buonarroti painted
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Sistine Chapel of the Vatican's ceiling where the Pope lives
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Even though Michelangelo was a brillant painter he prefered
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sculpture
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Famous Michelangelo sculpture
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David
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Michelangelo's famous painting on the ceiling of the Sistine Chapel in Rome
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The Creation of Adam
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2 other accomplishments of Michelangelo
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wrote poetry
architect-helped design St. Peters Basilica in Rome |
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This artist was a master of realism and painting frescoes, often portraying Christ, or the Virgin Mary and the Christ Child
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Raphael
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Raphael was hired to beautify
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the Vatican-pope hired him to paint frescos in papal chambers
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This artist was hired by the HRE and was the first to obtain wealth for his paintings
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Titan
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Why did the princes support the arts?
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they felt they would achieve lasting FAME
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What remarkable new process helped ideas spread?
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Printing press
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Who invented the printing press?
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Johannes Gutenberg- Mainz,Germany
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What did Gutenberg print?
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Bible
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The printing press helped
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spread new ideas to a large audience
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This Dutch humanist scholar who was interested in the early Christian period as well as Roman and Greek culture
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Erasmus
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Erasmus most famous book ridiculed ignorance, superstition and vice among Christians-criticizing fasting, pilgramiages, and church's inturputation of Bible
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The Praise of Folly
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How did Erasmus learn about the ideas of the Italian hummanist?
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printed books
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Thomas More(friend of Erasmus)
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Utopia
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Utopia criticizes his society by
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describing an imaginary "ideal society"
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Today utopia means
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an ideal place or society
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Most prominent ENGLISH LITERARY figure of the Renaissance?
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William Shakespeare
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3 things Shakespeare wrote
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Hamlet-moody
Romeo/Juliet-young lovers Macbeth-tragic |
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The painters in Flanders who developed a distinctive style of perfecting olis on canvas were called
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Flemish School
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