Renaissance Florence Midterm Review 1

Medici Family

100

His return from exile in 1434 is typically seen as the beginning of Medici rule in Florence

Cosimo de Medici

200

The brother of Lorenzo Il Magnifico, he was killed during the 1478 Pazzi Conspiracy

Giuliano

300

This man, the father of Lorenzo il Magnifico de Medici, was often carried through the streets on a litter and visitors had to pay respects to him at his own palazzo. Although this was all due to his poor health, it still unintentionally gave the appearance of royal snobbery. He is known to history as:

Piero the Gouty

400

in 1454, Cosimo de Medici was the mastermind behind the Peace of Lodi, which brought the 5 major Italian powers into a peace which lasted for most of the next 40 years during which the Florentine Renaissance came into full bloom. These 5 powers were:

Florence, Milan, Venice, Papal States & Kingdom of Naples

500

The founder of the Medici Bank, Giovanni di Bicci de' Medici, transformed the bank into the wealthiest in Europe when he earned THIS lucrative account:

The papal account

Medieval World

100

Medieval society was ideally divided into 3 social categories, those who...

Worked, prayed and ruled/fought

200

Dante's Divine Comedy, a late medieval masterpiece of religious poetry, was divided into 3 parts which reflected the three realms of the afterlife in the prevailing Catholic worldview:

Hell, Purgatory, Heaven

300

This style of medieval church architecture which dominated the cathedrals of High Middle Ages France, was rare in Italy. One example, however, was Milan's Duomo. Italian Renaissance architects, in their distaste, named it ___________, after the old Germanic barbarian tribes who had overrun the Roman Empire.

Gothic

400

In medieval intellectual life, great religious thinkers relied upon three great sources of knowledge, Scripture, the Church Fathers and Pagan Greco-Roman philosophers like Plato or Aristotle. The way they reconciled pre-Christian pagan philosophers' great knowledge to their own worldview was by assuming THIS about the philosophers:

That God was speaking through them, even if they did not realize it

500

The medieval painting style known as Italo-Byzantine typically incorporated THIS type of background

Gilded

Artists

100

He painted the Last Supper and Mona Lisa

Leonardo Da Vinci

200

This painter is considered the first Renaissance-style artist who broke from the medieval Italo-Byzantine style

Giotto

300

Brunelleschi famously used this prop during his bid to design the Florentine Duomo

an egg

400

This famously volatile artist and favorite of Cosimo de Medici sculpted David as an effeminate nude teenage boy, the first freestanding bronze statue produced since Roman Antiquity

Donatello

500

According to legend, when the pope requested a sample of Giotto's work to determine whether he would employ him, the great artist sent him the drawing of a ______________ .

Circle

Venice

100

Venice's government was certainly oligarchic, but is still best defined as a __________ style government.

Republican

200

The muddy islands that make up Venice were populated, urbanized and connected into a city by mainland Italian people who were fleeing _______________ at the end of the _______________ .

barbarian invasions, Roman Empire

300

____________ virtue is a way of describing the Venetian approach to governmental organization; a system that was made so deliberately complex and convoluted that corruption was a near-impossibility.

Mechanized

400

During his exile in the city, Cosimo de Medici sponsored the construction of a ___________ for the monks of San Giorgio

library

500

The "Myth of Venice" refers to this famous quality of the city during the Renaissance

its stability and lack of social/political upheavals