Renaissance People
Made The Pieta & the sculpture of David
Who is Michelangelo
Da Vinci's most famous piece of art. Most well-known for being stolen
What is the Mona Lisa
Someone who donates money to the arts
Who is a Patron
Which Italian city was the center of trade?
What is Venice
The idea that humans have potential for greatness
What is Humanism
The ideal Renaissance Man
Who is Leonardo Da Vinci
Play(s) written by Shakespeare
Romeo & Juliet, Hamlet, A Midsummer Night's Dream
Everyday spoken language
What is Vernacular
Who started the Humanist movement of the Renaissance?
Who is Francisco Petarca/Petrarch
Led to the creation of more books and the spread of humanist ideas
What is the Printing Press
Believed faith and reason worked together
St. Thomas Aquinas
Widely considered Michelangelo's magnum opus
What is The Pieta
Presenting something the way it is
What is Realism
The name of the two types of governments in Italy during the Renaissance
What is a Signoria & Republic/Republicanism
Belief that religion does not need to be the center of thought
What is Secularism
Who is Machiavelli
Raphael's most famous work. Rumored to have been completed by his apprentice after his passing.
What is Transfiguration
What is a sonnet
How did Renaissance ideas spread?
Cultural Diffusion
Book written about a society that has justice and equality for all
What is Utopia
Head of the Medici family. Funded many artists, sculptors and painters to create art parallel (similar) to the Greeks and Romans.
Cosimo Medici
Made by Jan Van Eyck. Also known as the Ghent Altarpiece
Painting made on fresh platter
Fresco
Where was Italy's geographic location in the Roman Empire?
The center/in the middle
Belief in the need to challenge accepted authorities' views
What is Skepticism