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16 Cards in this Set
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Leonardo da Vinci |
painted Mona Lisa and The Last Supper was also an inventor and a scientists |
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Michelangelo |
Painted the Sistine chapel |
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Johannes Gutenberg |
Invented the printing press |
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Arab Muslims |
helped Europeans understand the classics(Greeks and Romans) |
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Humanism |
gave importance to the individual and to human society anted to gain knowledge through reason and not just through religion |
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Francesco Petrarch |
traveled to different monasteries to find old Latin manuscripts. |
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Vernacular |
included Italian, French, and German |
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Dante Alighieri |
wrote the Divine Comedy |
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Geoffrey Chaucer |
wrote the Canterbury Tales(stories about pilgrims traveling to Canterbury, England) |
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Renaissance Art |
tried to show what people really looked like and reveal people's feelings |
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perspective |
-a way of showing things as they appear at different distances-gave paintings a realistic, 3-D look |
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fresco |
applying watercolor paint to fresh wet plaster |
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Raphael |
painted many frescoes for the palace of the pope-Perhaps his best-known fresco, the School of Athens |
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Northern Renaissance |
began painting in oils rather than using water-based paints. -the Renaissance spread from Italy to northern Europe. War, trade, travel, and the printing press all spread humanist ideas. |
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English Theater |
stages stood in the open air Some wealthy people sat under a roof or covering. Admission was only one or two cents, so even the poor could attend. The poor stood in a large open area. |
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William Shakespeare |
most famous works are Hamlet, Macbeth, Romeo and Juliet, and Henry V wrote about people's strengths, weaknesses, and emotions-wrote all kinds of plays: histories, comedies, and tragedies |
