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Leonardo da Vinci
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1- He studied anatomy to paint humans and was able to get the city to let him dissect bodies of executed criminals.
2- He painted "Madonna of the ROcks" and "The Last Supper" and "mona lisa" which shows triangular arrangment other perspective elements like foreshortening and chiaroscuro. |
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Sfumato=
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used to smooth the outlines of elements in the painting to heighten their three-dimensionality and to give them a sensuous softness.
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Michelangelo Buonarroti
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1- At 15, he lived and worked in the home of Florence's civil leader, Lorenzo de Medici, where he was treated like a son
2- He sculpted the "pieta", a statue of mary holding the body of her dead son, jesus. He signed his name across the sash on mary's chest (after someone took credit for his work) 3- Other workds- "david" "Moses" "Last Judgement" |
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Raphael
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1- He painted the fresco "The School of Athens" when commissioned by the pope Julius 2 (Shows realism, perspective, geometric arrangement, chiaroscuro, and a classical setting)
2- He painted the vaitcan staterooms at the same time michelangelo was working onthe sistine chapel. |
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Titian
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1- He was the foremoist of the artists in the benetian school and painted "Bacchus and Ariadne"
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Guillaume Dufay
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1- was the most important composer of the 1400s who wrote both religious and secular music
2- He introduced the secularization of the motet- he wrote motets for coronations, noble marriages, and the signings of peace treaties. |
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Giovanni Palestrina
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1- He was the most important Renaissance composer who wrote very conservative masses.
2- His most famous work is the mass in honor of pope Marcellus, which used polyphony. |
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Principal characteristics of Reaissance art:
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Realism
Diverse subject matter Simple and clean lines and designs Persepctive (to give three-dimensionality) Geometric arrangement of figures Chiaroscuro (light and dark shading) Sfumato (multiple payers of paint to soften edges to make them appear natural) |
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Indulgences=
Simony= Dispensations= |
paying to diminish time in purgaotry through forgiveness of sins
selling of church positions selling of papal exceptions to normal church rules such as ending a marriage |
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John Wycliffe
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1- He is considered the most important of the early reformers who disagreed with transubstatitino.
2- A trial was held against him, but his supporters protested so virorsouly that the trial ended without a verdict. (supporters called Lollards) 3- He translated the bible into english. After he died, his bones were exhumed |
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Jan Hus of Bohemia
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1- lived a generation after Wycliffe and was a supporter of the reforms suggested by wycliffe, and he publishded tracts indication this support.
2- Hus went to trial and was found gulity and sentenced to death. Sigismund refused to honor his promise of safety, and so Hus was burned at the stake. |
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Martin Luther-
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1- Was caught in a terrible rainstorm and prayted for God's protection and promised that if God would spare him, he would dedicate his life to God. He then jouned the Order of Austin
2- He posted a list of 95 these on the door of the chapel of wittenburg university 3- The diet of worms convened to admonish Luther to stop criticiing the pope. His friend, Frederick "kidnapped" luther and placed him in the wartburg castle |