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16 Cards in this Set
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Mannerism
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A style in late 16th-century Italian art, reflecting the stresses of the age, that evoked shock in the viewer.
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Botticelli
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Florentine artist with a sensitive style that emphasized line, well exemplified in his BIRTH of VENUS.
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Titian
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16th-century Venetian painter noted for his robust sensuousness, color, and light; his reputation among his contemporaries was based largely on his portraits.
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Ghiberti
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Sculptor who created bronze doors for the baptistery in Florence that one observer claimed were "worthy to be the gates of paradise."
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Francesco Petrarca (Petrarch)
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"Father of humanism" and a transitional figure between the Renaissance and the Middle Ages.
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Lorenzo the Magnificent
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Member of the Medici family who ruled Florence from 1469 to 1492; a major patron of arts.
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Giovanni Boccaccio
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Important early humanist and author of the DECAMERON.
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Benvenuto Cellini
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The autobiography of this 16th-century artist and adventurer give us insights into Renaissance manners and morals.
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Humanism
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Itellectual movement, beginning in 14th-century Italy, which stressed classical learning and individualism.
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Quattrocento
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Italian term for the 14th century, often used to designate a leading Renaissance era.
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The Black Death
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Disaster that formed the backdrop for the stories of the DECAMERON.
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Plato and Aristotle
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Two ancient Greek philosophers who wielded a great deal of influence during the Renaissance.
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Josquin des Près
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"Founder of High Renaissance music," this composer created symmetrical musical forms based on correct mathermatical proportions.
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Michelangelo Buonarroti
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Most illustrious Renaissance sculptor, also a painter (the Sistine Chapel) and architect (St. Peter's dome).
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Donatello
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Florentine sculptor of the early Renaissance who abandoned Gothic sculpture in favor of classical models; famous for his equestrian stature of Gattamelata.
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Leonardo da Vinci
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Genius of many talents, famoud primarily as the painter of such masterpieces as THE LAST SUPPER and the MONA LISA, notable also as a student of physics, anatomy, and other sciences.
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