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Period of cultural achievements from the late 13th to late 16th century

Renaissance

Center of Renaissance

Italy


Low countries (Netherlands)

Renaissance cities

Venice


Florence


Milan


Rome

Economic foundation

Acquisition of wealth

Located in Northeastern Italy


A city of 117 small islands


Separated by small canals


Connected by Bridges



Venice

Built a merchant marine that bought Asian products from Turkey, Syria, Lebanon and sold these at high cost

Venice Overseas Trade

Located in the region of Tuscany


Built its power by acquiring control of papal banking


Used profits from loans


Investment and money exchanges in Florentine industries

Florence

Located in the region of Lombardy


Dominated the Po River Valley


Located along trade lines


Gateway to Italy from the north

Milan

Located in the papal states


Site of St. Peter's Basilica


Seat of church power

Rome

Political foundation

Establishment of strong city-states governed by oligarchies

Governed by the Doge or the Chief Magistrate


Elected for life by the city-state's aristocracy


Exercised ecclesiastical civil and military powers

Venice

Lived in the Doge Palace

Doge of Venice

Governed by the Medici Family

Florence

First Medici

Cosimo de Medici

Second Medici

Piero di Cosimo de Madici

Third Medici

Lorenzo Medici

Engaged in banking who founded the largest bank in Europe

Medici Family

Governed by the House of Sforza


Comprised a rural nobility


Acquired military power by becoming soldiers

Milan

Other term for soldiers of the House of Sforza

Condottieri

Adopted the name Sforzare and founder of the House of Sforza

Muzio Attendolo

To exert force

Sforzare

A son of Muzio Attendolo

Francesco Sforza

Palace of the Sforza Family

Castello Sforzesco

Head of the Catholic Church, Bishop of Rome

Pope

Rulers of city-states

Crushed urban revolts


Levied taxes


Killed their enemies


Engaged in massive building projects

Maintained and enriched the Basilica Cathedrale Patriarcale di San Marco (St. Mark's Basilica)


Maintaned and preserved Piaza de San Marco

Doges of Venice

Founded Ospidale Maggiore

Francesco Sforza

Completed Milan Cathedral


Commissioned Leonardo Da Vinci to make the Last Supper

Ludovico Sforza

Built the Palazzo Medici


Financed the completion of the dome of the Basilica di Santa Maria del Fiore

Cosimo de Medici

Built the dome of the Basilica di Santa Maria del Fiore

Filippo Brunelleschi

Ordered the rebuilding of St. Peter's Basilica

Popes

Ordered Construction of the Sistine Chapel

Sixtus IV

Drew up the first plans for a new St. peter's Basilica in Renaissance Neo-Classical Style

Nicholas V

Ordered the rebuilding of St. Peter's Basilica

Julius II

Commissioned Michaelangelo to make the Piazza del Campidogio

Paul III

Ordered the construction of the Palazzo del Quirinale and beautified it

Gregory XIII

Designed the Palazzo Venezia

Paul II

Transformed the Piazza Navona

Innocent X

Intellectual spirits

Individualism


Humanism


Secularism

Individualism (important points)

Capabilities, talents, skills


Personality


Uniqueness

Humanism (important points)

Achievements


Interests


Capabilities

Concerned with the material world instead of with eternal and spiritual matters


Explains things within the limits of what the senses can discover


Concerned on the acquisition of material things

Secularism

Beautiful town houses built by wealthy families

Renaissance Palaces (Palazzi)

Wrote La Divina Comedia

Dante Alighieri (Florence)

Wrote Decameron and De Mulieribus Claris

Giovanni Boccaccio (Florence)

Wrote Il Canzoniere

Francesco Petrarca (Arezzo, Italy)

Wrote Il Principe

Niccolo Machiavelli (Florence)

Describes the author's travels to Inferno, Purgatorio, and Paradiso

La Divina Comedia

Tells of the travels of a group of seven young women and three young men who left Florence due to plague


Every night, all members tell one story each

Decameron

Collection of biographies of historical and mythological women (Clarishu)

De mulieribus claris

Collection of poems concentrating on love for a woman called Laura

Il Canzoniere

Argues that the aims of princes, such as glory and survival, can justify the use of immoral means to achieve those ends

Il Principe

Artworks of Leonardo da Vinci

Mona Lisa


The adoration of the magi


Virgin of the rocks

Artworks of Michaelangelo

Ceiling of the Sistine Chapel


The Creation of Adam


Separation of light from darkness


The last judgment

Rafael's whole name

Raffaello Sanzio da Urbino

Artworks of Rafael

The School of Athens


Crucifixion with the virgin, Saints and Angels


Marriage of the virgin

Sandro Botticelli's whole name

Alessandro di Mariano di Vanni Pilipepi

Artworks of Sandro Boticelli

The Birth of Venus


Primavera

Titian's whole name

Tiziano Vecelli

Artworks of Titian

Venus of Urbino


Danae

Artworks of Fra Angelico

Annunciation of Cortona


Coronation of the Virgin

Artworks of Fra Filippo Lipi

Madonna and Child


Annunciation

Combined the drawing of michaelangelo with the coloring of titian

Tintoretto

Artworks of Tintoretto

St. Mark's body brought to Venice


Finding of the body of St. Mark


The deliverance of Arsenoe

Sculptures of Michaelangelo

David


Pieta

Donatello's whole name

Donato di Niccolo di Betto Bardi

Sculptures of Donatello

David

Themes of Architecture

Emphasis on symmetry, proportion, geometry and regularity of parts


Orderly arrangement of columns, pilasters and lintels


Use of semicircular arches, hemispherical domes and niches

What did Leon Battista Alberti wrote?

De Re Aedificatoria (Architecture *cries*)