What is this art term?
The idea to paint and sculpt subjects realistically. It involves a number of techniques that make the subjects and background look like they would in real life.
Realism
Who made the sculpture David?
Michelangelo
Who was Leonardo De Vinnci?
Renaissance Man, painter, sculpture, inventor, and scientist
What did the Renaissance cause having to do with religion?
The fall of the Roman Catholic Church
When was the printing press invented?
1450
What art term is this?
A type of art that pays attention to very accurate and precise details, and portrays things as they are
Naturalism
Who made the Vitruvian Man?
Leonardo De Vinnci
Who was Machiavelli?
Humanist who dreamed to unite italy as one political entity and to rid of foreign invaders, also wrote the prince
What drastic event set the stage for the emergence of the Renaissance?
The Black Plague
What is the Renaissance?
Rebirth in art, writing, learning, architecture, and culture
What is this art term?
Sixteenth century style of art and design characterized by artificiality, elegance and sensuous distortion of the human figure
Mannerist
Who made the Birth of Venus?
Sandro Botticelli
Who were the Medici’s?
Rich banking family in Florence and controlled the government also.They ruled France for more than 60 years and they also paid artists to do great works for them.
This 14th-century Florentine is considered the "father" of Humanism in Renaissance Italy.
Petrarch
What is a humanist?
A renaissance cultural movement which turned away from medieval scholasticism and revived interest in ancient Greek and roman thought
What is this art term?
Allowed artists to move toward a more realistic portrayal of nature and to achieve the illusion of depth on a two-dimensional surface
Linear Perspective
Who made the Ugly Duchess?
Quentin Matsys
Who was the first European scientist to propose that Earth and other planets revolve around the sun?
Nicolaus Copernicus
Michelangelo built a huge dome atop this basilica for the pope in the early-16th century.
What is the name of it?
St Peters Basilica
Why did the Renaissance start in Italy? ( Three reasons)
It began in northern Italy because it had the advantages of city states, merchants, and the Medici’s
What is this art term?
A form of mural painting in which earth pigments are painted directly on fresh, wet, lime plaster
Fresco
Who made the School of Athens?
Raphael
Who was Donatello?
An Italian painter and scuptor
Could women stand in front of windows?
Women were not allowed to stand in front of windows. Why? They would “inflame the carnal desires” of men walking below, and take those men “away from God.”
Were three key points in the "The Prince" by Machiavelli