City of Florence
Why was it important that Florence was located on the Arno River?
It allowed for better trade and commerce
What are private townhouses that wealthy families built called?
Palazzi
What were sculptors influenced by?
Humanist interest in realism
Who made great advances in science and mathematics?
Scholars and others
How did the Medici family benefit Florence?
They sponsored artists, writers and musicians making art improve in Florence.
In the early 14th century how many people lived inside Florence's walls?
About 100,000 people
Using _________, artists were able to add ____ to their paintings.
Perception, depth
Who did Donatello influence?
Michelangelo
What switched out with relying on old books and theories?
Scientists began to perform experiments and analyze the results using mathematics and logic. This approach to research changed the study of science.
What was the main reason people went to Florence?
Banking industry
Travelers/Merchants came to Florence with __________? (Need 2 for full credit)
New ideas, Goods, and Technology
What type of math and science were used for painting?
Geometry and Chemistry
Renaissance
Who was Leonardo da Vinci?
Leonardo da Vinci was an artist, a scientist, an engineer, and an inventor who studied under artists in Florence and did his early work there.
Why were food and weapons banned at market?
City officials wanted it to be clean to show they valued commerce
Who dominated Renaissance Florence, and how did they gain this power?
The Medici family, and they gained it through banking
What is the eight-sided cathedral that started building in 1296 called?
Santa Maria del Fiore
What language did Dante Alighieri write in?
Italian
Who solved complex equations in algebra and did pioneering work in probability, the science of chance?
Girolamo Cardano
What is "The Prince" based on?
How the political and economic government works.
The people in Florence were inspired by freedom of ____, that was the core of _____.
Ideas, humanism
Who helped have the eight-sided cathedral not collapse and even stand today?
Brunelleschi
How did vernacular writing promote literature?
It reached more people.
_______ _______ conducted important experiments about _______. Proving that a heavier object and a lighter object fall at the same rate. If the two objects are dropped from the same height, they reach the ground at the same time.
Galileo Galilei, gravity
Why did the Mercato Nuovo became one of the largest financial marketplaces in Europe?
Because people traveled from far and wide to get loans or to convert their money into florins, which could be exchanged for goods anywhere in Europe.