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40 Cards in this Set
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wrote the Prince, which contained a secular method of ruling a country
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Niccolo Machiavelli
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invented printing press
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Johannes Gutenberg
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sculptor; probably exerted greatest influence of any Florentine artist b/f Michelangelo-statues expressed an appreciation of the incredible variety of human nature
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Donatello
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Italian architect celebrated for work during in Florence
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Filippo Brunelleschi
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First Tudor Monarch; rebuilt the monarchy and created sense of national identity
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Henry VII of England
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wrote On Pleasure and On the False Donation of Constantine; challenged the authority of the papacy; Father of Modern Historical Criticism
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Lorenzo Valla
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wrote On the Dignity of Man; stated that man was made in the image of God b/f the fall and as Christ a/f the resurrection
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Pico della Mirandola
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Madonna and child paintings, school of Athens humanism
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Raphael
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worked in Rome, painted the Sistine Chapel for Pope Julius II; sculpted Statue of David
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Michelangelo
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artist who made sculptures and religious paintings like the last Supper
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Leonardo da Vinci
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Dutch Humanist; most intellectual man in Europe; believed RCC (Roman Catholic Church) problems could be fixed; wrote Praise of Folly
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Desiderius Erasmus
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owner of Medici fortune in Florence
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Cosimo de Medici
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Dominican friar who attacked paganism and moral vice of Medici & Alexander VI; burned @ the stake in Florence
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Girolamo Savonarola
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very militaristic; tore down St.Peter's Basillica & began to work on present structure; sponsored Michelangelo to pain the Sistine Chapel
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Pope Julius II
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corrupt Spanish pope; aided military and politically by his son Cesare Borgia, who was the hero of The Prince
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Pope Alexander VI
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Florentine painter who led the way in the use of realism
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Giotto di Bondone
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most famous and innovative Flemish painter, perfected oil painting
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Jan Van Eyck
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painting that had minute details
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Hubert van Eyck
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first to use the term humanism; wrote History of Florence, Chancellor of Florence
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Leonardo Bruni
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created the Birth of Venus
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Sandro Botticelli
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"Spider King" made land tax (taille) and salt tax (gabelle)
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Louis XI of France
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patron of the arts
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Lorenzo the Magnificent
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Father of Humanism
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Petrarch
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first lady of the renaissance; set the example for ladies not to be just an ornament of their husbands
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Isabella d'Este
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sculptor, built the doors "the gates of paradise"
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Lorenzo Ghiberti
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historian, aimed that the renaissance was in contrast to the Middle Ages
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Jacob Burckhardt
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wrote The Cortier
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Baldassare Castilglione
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wrote Essays, finest representative of early modern scepticism
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Montaigne
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French Humanist; applied humanism to religion
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Lefevre d'Estaples
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wrote Gargantua and Pantagruel
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Francois Rabelais
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revived the monarchs expelled the English, increased the influence of the middle classes, strengthened fiances through taxes; created 1st permanent royal army
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Charles VII of France
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song of Alexander VI; The Prince in Machiavelli's novel
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Cesare Borgia
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significant patronizing art of N. Renaissance
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Jacob Fugger
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influenced the humanist ideas of Erasmus
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John Colet
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attempted to reconcile faith & reason by using logic to support Christian doctrine
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Thomas Aquinas
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premier portrait artist of his era
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Hans Holbein the Younger
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led nationalist movement in Bohemia
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Jan Hus
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believed the church should only follow Scripture
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John Wyclif
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believed the human soul could communicated with God
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Thomas a Kempis
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foremost N. Renaissance artist
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Albrecht Durer
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