What was the Renaissance?
14th-16th centuries
13-16th
In what centuries did the Northern Renaissance take place?
15th-17th
Painter of "the Mona Lisa" and "The Last Supper", also renowed sculptor, architect, inventor, and military engineer
Leonardo Da Vinci
Astronomer credited for establishing the concept of the heliocentric theory
Nicolaus Copernicus
Rebirth
Humanism studied what concepts (name two)
rhetoric, history, philosophy, grammar, literature, and/or poetry
Printing press
Natural philosopher, astronomer and mathematician, and fierce advocate for the heliocentric theory which got him in trouble with the Church
Galileo Galilei
Regarded as greatest German Renaissance artist, and the favorite artist of the Holy Roman Emperor
Albrecht Durer
Two eras in which the Renaissance was divided
Northern and Italian Renaissance
Italian city states where the Italian Renaissance flourished (name two)
Florence, Siena, Venice
How did knowledge from the Italian Renaissance spread toward Northern Europe
Best known for lyric poetry, and his works became the basis for Italian modern language
Petrarch
One of the earliest Flemish oil canvas painters, painted "Adoration of the Lamb"
Jan van Eyck
Name two studies/fields that flourished during the Renaissance
Art, literature, science, and/or technology
Italian Renaissance art is famous for
Realistic 3D sculptures
Northern Renaissance artists shifted away from religious paintings toward what types of paintings?
Landscapes
The Renaissance was considered the bridge between the Middle Ages and what?
Modern History
What did the ideals of Italian Renaissance Humanism reject?