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Period of cultural achievements from the late 13th to late 16th century |
Renaissance |
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Center of Renaissance |
Italy Low countries (Netherlands) |
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Renaissance cities |
Venice Florence Milan Rome |
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Economic foundation |
Acquisition of wealth |
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Located in Northeastern Italy A city of 117 small islands Separated by small canals Connected by Bridges |
Venice |
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Built a merchant marine that bought Asian products from Turkey, Syria, Lebanon and sold these at high cost |
Venice Overseas Trade |
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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 |
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Located in the region of Lombardy Dominated the Po River Valley Located along trade lines Gateway to Italy from the north |
Milan |
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Located in the papal states Site of St. Peter's Basilica Seat of church power |
Rome |
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Political foundation |
Establishment of strong city-states governed by oligarchies |
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Governed by the Doge or the Chief Magistrate Elected for life by the city-state's aristocracy Exercised ecclesiastical civil and military powers |
Venice |
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Lived in the Doge Palace |
Doge of Venice |
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Governed by the Medici Family |
Florence |
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First Medici |
Cosimo de Medici |
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Second Medici |
Piero di Cosimo de Madici |
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Third Medici |
Lorenzo Medici |
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Engaged in banking who founded the largest bank in Europe |
Medici Family |
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Governed by the House of Sforza Comprised a rural nobility Acquired military power by becoming soldiers |
Milan |
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Other term for soldiers of the House of Sforza |
Condottieri |
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Adopted the name Sforzare and founder of the House of Sforza |
Muzio Attendolo |
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To exert force |
Sforzare |
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A son of Muzio Attendolo |
Francesco Sforza |
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Palace of the Sforza Family |
Castello Sforzesco |
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Head of the Catholic Church, Bishop of Rome |
Pope |
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Rulers of city-states |
Crushed urban revolts Levied taxes Killed their enemies Engaged in massive building projects |
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Maintained and enriched the Basilica Cathedrale Patriarcale di San Marco (St. Mark's Basilica) Maintaned and preserved Piaza de San Marco |
Doges of Venice |
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Founded Ospidale Maggiore |
Francesco Sforza |
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Completed Milan Cathedral Commissioned Leonardo Da Vinci to make the Last Supper |
Ludovico Sforza |
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Built the Palazzo Medici Financed the completion of the dome of the Basilica di Santa Maria del Fiore |
Cosimo de Medici |
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Built the dome of the Basilica di Santa Maria del Fiore |
Filippo Brunelleschi |
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Ordered the rebuilding of St. Peter's Basilica |
Popes |
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Ordered Construction of the Sistine Chapel |
Sixtus IV |
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Drew up the first plans for a new St. peter's Basilica in Renaissance Neo-Classical Style |
Nicholas V |
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Ordered the rebuilding of St. Peter's Basilica |
Julius II |
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Commissioned Michaelangelo to make the Piazza del Campidogio |
Paul III |
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Ordered the construction of the Palazzo del Quirinale and beautified it |
Gregory XIII |
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Designed the Palazzo Venezia |
Paul II |
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Transformed the Piazza Navona |
Innocent X |
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Intellectual spirits |
Individualism Humanism Secularism |
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Individualism (important points) |
Capabilities, talents, skills Personality Uniqueness |
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Humanism (important points) |
Achievements Interests Capabilities |
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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 |
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Beautiful town houses built by wealthy families |
Renaissance Palaces (Palazzi) |
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Wrote La Divina Comedia |
Dante Alighieri (Florence) |
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Wrote Decameron and De Mulieribus Claris |
Giovanni Boccaccio (Florence) |
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Wrote Il Canzoniere |
Francesco Petrarca (Arezzo, Italy) |
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Wrote Il Principe |
Niccolo Machiavelli (Florence) |
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Describes the author's travels to Inferno, Purgatorio, and Paradiso |
La Divina Comedia |
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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 |
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Collection of biographies of historical and mythological women (Clarishu) |
De mulieribus claris |
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Collection of poems concentrating on love for a woman called Laura |
Il Canzoniere |
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Argues that the aims of princes, such as glory and survival, can justify the use of immoral means to achieve those ends |
Il Principe |
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Artworks of Leonardo da Vinci |
Mona Lisa The adoration of the magi Virgin of the rocks |
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Artworks of Michaelangelo |
Ceiling of the Sistine Chapel The Creation of Adam Separation of light from darkness The last judgment |
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Rafael's whole name |
Raffaello Sanzio da Urbino |
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Artworks of Rafael |
The School of Athens Crucifixion with the virgin, Saints and Angels Marriage of the virgin |
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Sandro Botticelli's whole name |
Alessandro di Mariano di Vanni Pilipepi |
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Artworks of Sandro Boticelli |
The Birth of Venus Primavera |
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Titian's whole name |
Tiziano Vecelli |
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Artworks of Titian |
Venus of Urbino Danae |
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Artworks of Fra Angelico |
Annunciation of Cortona Coronation of the Virgin |
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Artworks of Fra Filippo Lipi |
Madonna and Child Annunciation |
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Combined the drawing of michaelangelo with the coloring of titian |
Tintoretto |
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Artworks of Tintoretto |
St. Mark's body brought to Venice Finding of the body of St. Mark The deliverance of Arsenoe |
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Sculptures of Michaelangelo |
David Pieta |
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Donatello's whole name |
Donato di Niccolo di Betto Bardi |
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Sculptures of Donatello |
David |
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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 |
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What did Leon Battista Alberti wrote? |
De Re Aedificatoria (Architecture *cries*) |