The City of Florence
How could rich residents afford patrons of talented artists and thinkers?
Banking along with wood trade, created wealth that could support art and architecture.
In family built private townhouses also known as the palazzi, what was on the ground floor and what was on the second floor?
The ground floor were shops and the second floor were homes
Who often controlled the government board in Florence?
Rich Families.
What has changed along with the rebirth of interest in classic ideas and rise in humanism?
Literature
During the Renaissance, it was not just a time of progress in the arts. Scholars and others also made great advances in___ and ____.
Science and mathematics.
Renaissance Florence was ruled by a powerful family known as
Medici
What did Brunelleschi have to involve in constructing buildings?
Mathematics
Who was one of the most powerful people in the Medici Family?
Lorenzo
Who was the first well-known writer to create in a native language?
Dante Alighieri
Most of what people believed about the natural world was based on
Ancient Greek and Roman texts
Florence was Italy's leading trade center and had sculptors who achieved
Achieved great works of art, wealth, and fame during the Renaissance.
What were public spaces influenced by?
Humanist Ideals
In which market center were the largest industries?
Mercato Nuovo
What was one difference between the art of literature during medieval and renaissance times?
One of the following; impersonal style vs individual style, religious vs non religious, formal and impersonal style vs expressing thought and feeling about life, & Latin vs native language
Who is Leonardo da Vinci?
An artist, a scientist, an engineer, and an inventor who studied under artists in Florence and did his early work there.
People from all over the world came to Florence and both learned something new.
Florence had good schools, libraries and artists while they got the new ideas of technology.
Which paint also allowed artists to paint over previous work and to show details and texture in new ways
Oil Paint
What is the book that Niccolo wrote about his experiences of how politics and government really works?
The Prince
What were Renaissance sculptors influenced by?
Realism
Who was Girolamo Cardano?
Solve complex equations in algebra and did pioneering work in probability, the science of chance
Florence had massive _____ and traded across Europe.
Woolen cloth trading.
What was one key advance made by Renaissance painters?
They created the appearance of depth and flat and changed the size of each painting to make it look realistic.
What is the reason that Florence is known as a cultural center?
Because Florence brought Trade and commerce.
Which statue from Donatello influenced Michelangelo?
David
Galileo Galilei was the first person to build a telescope. What did he discover with his telescope?
He discovered sunspots and the moons of the planet Jupiter with his telescope.