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32 Cards in this Set
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Dante
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one of the firsts to write in the vernacular, a poet
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Petrarch
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writes love sonnets to Laura, dies in 1374, father of humanism
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Bocaccio
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writes the decameron, pokes fun at the church (anti-clerical)
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Bruni
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history of florence
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Lorenz Valla
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textual criticism
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Castiglione
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writes the courier, a practical guide for noblemen
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Vasari
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wrote lives of the painters
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Jacob Bruckhardt
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first historian (19th century) to talk about the renaissance as a unique time etc.
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Bruneleschi
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did the Duomo in florence and it didn't collapse on itself even though everyone thought it would
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Donatello
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did David, the first freestanding nude since Roman times
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Botticelli
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birth of venus
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Da Vinci (high renaissance)
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renaissance man, lots of science
last supper and mona lisa individual is important in the painting uses Chiaroscuro and sfumato |
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Michelangelo
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Sculpts: pieta-- mary holding Jesus
influenced by neoplatonism david Julius tomb and medici tomb Sistine chapel for Pope Julius Last Judgment for pope Clement VII St. Peter's Dome |
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Raphael
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Madonnas with her holding Jesus and sometimes John the Baptist
School of Athens with contemporary artists and Pope Leo X |
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Titian/Tintoretto
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Venetian ernaissance artsits
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El Greco
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used mannerism, exaggerated and elongated everything
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D'etables
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french humanist
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Rebelais
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wrote ribald literature, made fun of sex
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Van Eyke
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Arnolfini and his Bride (not about Greeks OR God)
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Erasmus
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christian humanism, wants religious reform like people read the bible themselves and vernacular but not nearly as revolutionary as Martin Luther
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Thomas More
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very catholic, wrote utopia about the problems with accumulation of wealth
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Hierononous Bosch
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garden of earthly delights (3 parts, very ahead of his time)
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El Greco
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reacts against balance and symmetry because he is more exaggerated and elongated
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Pieter Burghee
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peasant wedding, pokes fun at peasants, massacre of the innocents (controversial)
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Albert Durher
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most famous German, does self-portarits with a Jesus-like pose
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Christine de Lista
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first feminist, knows about anguages and literature, writes about great ladies in history, instructions for women on how to handle their husbands
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Laura Certera
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lectured at padua
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Pico Della Mirandola
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Early renaissance writer, borrows from Plato and writes 'On the Beauty of Man' saying that the difference between man and animal is that man has free choice either to soar with the angels or be with the pigs
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Alexander VI 1491-1503
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renaissance borgia pope, very corrupt
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Julius II1503-13
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warrior pope, wanted to rebuid Rome
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Leo X 1513-1521
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Medici
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Clemnet VII 1521-34
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Medici, hid in the castle?
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