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37 Cards in this Set
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Niccolo Machiavelli |
Wrote the Prince
Argued that a leader should be ruthless, but keen
It is more important to be feared than loved
Ideal leader was Cesare Borgia |
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Cosimo de Medici |
First Oligarch to rule Florence
Most powerful Medici leader |
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Lorenzo de Medici |
Oligarch of Florence
Patron if art
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Sforza family |
Oligarchs of Duchy of Milan |
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Girolamaq Savanarola |
Overtook Medici family during French invasions of Florence
Installed theocracy |
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Petrarch |
Father of humanism
Coined term, the Dark Ages
Literature broke from religion
Wrote in Italian Vernacular
Crital analysis of classics |
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Boccaccio |
Compiles Encyclopedia of Greek and Roman mythology
Wrote Decameron, which used 100 earhy tells to comment on 14th century Italy |
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Leonardo Bruni |
Coined Humanism
Served as Chancellor of Florence
Wrote the history of Florence |
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Lorenzo Valla |
Expert on Latin
Exposed frauds commited by the Catholic Church
Found errors in bible translations
Still was a devote Catholic |
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Marsilio Ficino |
Founded Platonic Aademy
Worked to spread teachings of Plato
Translated Plato's work into Latin
Gave people access to Greek and Roman philosophy |
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Pico della Mirandola |
Wrote Oration of the Dignoty of Man, one of the most famous Renaissance books
Glorofied man and mans accomplishments |
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Baldassare Castiglione |
Wrote the Book of the Courteir
Invented modern etiquette
Rejected crude behavior
Saw Virtu, or how great a man is |
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Johann Gutenburg |
First movable printing press
Allowed ideas to be spread
Bible printed
Laws printed
Treaties printed
Started the Reformation |
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Giorgio Vasari |
Wrote Lives of Artists A historian Coined Renaissance Left many information about Renaissance artists |
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Pope Alexander VI |
Major patron of art Patroned the Sistine Chaple, The School of Athens, and Tempietto |
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Giotto |
First Renaissance painter
Used Chiaroscuro |
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Filippo Brunelleschi |
Created Il Duono, the largest dome of its time
Father of perspective |
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Lorenzo Ghiberti |
Sculptor
Won a contest against Brunelleschi
Earned him to commision the bronze doors of the Florentine babtistery
Michelanglo called his doors the Gates of Heaven |
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Donatello |
Sculptor Bronze statue of David
First to utilize a nude |
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Leon Battista Alberti |
Architect of many cathedrals |
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Masaccio |
Painter First to portray a real human nude in 3d
Expulsion of Adam and Eve |
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Sandro Botticelli |
Birth of Venus
Painter
Venus stands in Contrapposto, or uneven |
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Bramante |
Architect
Tempietto, commissioned by Alexander VI, supposedly where Peter was crucified
Marked the beginning of thr high Renaissance
Architech in St Peters Cathedral |
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Leanardo Da Vinci |
Mona Lisa
Painter, scultor, architect, engineer, writer, scientist Used Sfumato |
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Raphael Santi |
Paintor Numerous Madonna and Child paintings Painted School of Athens which is the essential humanist painting |
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Michelangelo |
Painted the Sistine Chapel Sculpted David Scupted Peita Desighned St Peters dome, the largest dome |
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Titian |
From Venetian school Painter Painted with many colors and used movement |
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Erasmus |
Translated the New Testiment into Greek and Latin Wrote Praise the Folly, a satirical book mocking the Catholic church hypocracy A devote Catholic Wanted to reform the church Apposed the Reformation |
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Thomas More |
Lord Chancellor of Henry VIII Wrote Utopia, blending Platonic teachings with Catholism Said property causes society's problems Wanted the common good |
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Jacques Lefervre d'Etables |
Leading French Humanist Produced 5 versions of Psalms that challenged the bible Devote Catholic |
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Francesco Ximenes de Cisneros |
Reformed Spanosh Clergy Latin versions of the bible together Put Greek, Hebrew and Latin versions of the bible togetherGrand Inquistor of the Spanish Inquistion Grand Inquistor of the Spanish Inquistion |
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Francois Rabelais |
Wrote folk epics Gargantua and Pantagruel the satirized French society Attacked Clerical and Monastic orders Secular |
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Michel de Mobtaigne |
Developed the essay Skepticism |
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William Shakespear |
His worked reflected Humanism ideas perfectly |
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Jan Van Eyck |
Perfect oil painting Flemish painter Religous symbolism
Ghent Alterpiece |
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Bosch |
Netherland Symbolism and fantasy Surealistic Death and Misery |
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Peter Brueghel the Elder |
Focused on ordinary lives Peasantry Dance, Peasant Wedding |
