Italian City-States
This city-state linked Asia and Western Europe through its trade network.
What is Venice?
This author wrote The Prince, a book about gaining and keeping political power.
Who is Niccolò Machiavelli?
This Renaissance movement focused on the study of classical Greek and Roman texts and the humanities.
What is humanism?
This technique creates the illusion of three-dimensional depth on a flat surface.
What is perspective?
This Flemish painter was among the first to use and perfect oil painting.
Who is Jan van Eyck?
These five major urban centers dominated much of Italy: Milan, Venice, Florence, Rome, and this southern city.
What is Naples?
These paid soldiers fought for rulers such as Francesco Sforza.
What are mercenaries?
Often called the father of Italian Renaissance humanism, he searched for ancient Latin manuscripts.
Who is Petrarch?
A painting made with water-based paints on fresh, wet plaster is called this.
What is a fresco?
Northern Renaissance artists often painted book illustrations and wooden panels for these church artworks.
What are altarpieces?
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What does the word "Renaissance" mean? Which language is it from?
"Rebirth"; French
Machiavelli argued that political decisions should be guided by results rather than this.
What are moral principles?
This term means the everyday spoken language of a particular region.
What is the vernacular?
This artist is famous for the Mona Lisa and was described as a well-rounded Renaissance man.
Who is Leonardo da Vinci?
Give one key difference between the artistic approaches of Italy and northern Europe during the Renaissance.
Italian artists often used frescoes, perspective, and geometry to create realistic space. Northern artists often focused on precise details, oil painting, book illustrations, and wooden panels.
Located at the crossroads of trade routes over the Alps, this city-state was one of Italy’s richest.
What is Milan?
In 1527, the armies of Charles I of Spain carried out this violent attack on the city of Rome.
What was the Sack of Rome?
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This sculptor, painter, and architect created the figures on the ceiling of the Sistine Chapel.
Who is Michelangelo?
Describe the levels of society during the Renaissance.
Renaissance society, like society in the
Middle Ages, was divided into three social
classes: the clergy, the nobility, and the
peasants and townspeople
Explain how the location of Italian cities helped them become wealthy and politically powerful.
Trade routes brought valuable goods and merchants to Italian cities. Wealth from trade strengthened their economies and helped them gain political influence.
Which wealthy family took control of Florence in 1434 and helped make the city a major cultural center of the Renaissance?
The Medicis.
Explain how Gutenberg’s improvements to movable type changed the spread of knowledge.
Books could be produced faster and more cheaply, making them more available. Knowledge spread more widely, scholars gained easier access to texts, and a reading public grew.
How did humanism influence Renaissance artists’ treatment of the human body and the natural world?
Artists emphasized human beings and tried to imitate nature realistically. They studied the human body and used techniques such as perspective to create depth and lifelike figures.
Across trade, politics, education, and art, how did the Renaissance represent a shift from the culture of the Middle Ages?
The Renaissance emphasized urban life, trade, humanism, classical Greek and Roman learning, individual achievement, and realistic art. Compared with the Middle Ages’ stronger focus on religion, Renaissance thinkers and artists gave greater attention to human life and the world, while religion still remained important.