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One of the greatest Painters of all time who advised Italian princes and the French King, Francis I, on military engineering.
What is Leonardo da Vinci (1452)?
The revival of art and literature under the influence of classical models in the 14th-16 centuries.
What is the Renaissance?
The source which humanists drew inspiration and knowledge from.
The bottom of society and the lower socioeconomic classes in Florence.
What is the poppolo minuto or the "little people"?
The "the father of humanism" and author of Letters to the Ancient Dead, Africa, and Lives of Illustrious Men.
What is Petrarch (1304-1374)?
A liberal arts program of study that embraced grammar, rhetoric, poetry, history, politics, and moral philosophy.
What is the Studia Humanitatis?
The characteristics of Renaissance art.
What is symmetry, naturalism, proportionality, and human emotions?
The goal of the humanist study.
What is wisdom eloquently spoken, both knowledge of the good and the ability to move others to desire it?
Venice was this type of government.
What is a Republic?
An Italian banker and politician who established the Medici family as rulers of Florence during much of the Renaissance.
What is Cosimo de Medici (1389-1464)?
Cunning, scheming, and unscrupulous ruthless ruling and believing that the ends justify the means.
Francis I and Charles making Italy the battleground for their dynastic claims on Burgundy and parts of Italy, ended this period/event.
What is Renaissance Italy?
What is Plato?
This government system prevented internal social conflict and foreign intrigue from paralyzing their cities by hiring despots to keep order.
4 different Popes commissioned his works and he was one of the first to use mannerism.
What is Michelangelo (1475-1564)?
A Renaissance cultural movement which turned away from medieval scholasticism and revived interest in ancient Greek and Roman thought.
What is humanism?
The use of shading to enhance naturalness and the adjustment of the size of figures to give the viewer a feeling of continuity with the painting.
What is linear perspective?
Lorenzo Valla was unintentionally critical of this in his expose.
What is the Donation of Constantine?
Ferdinand of Aragon created this counter alliance, when he found himself vulnerable to a French-Italian axis.
What is the League of Venice?
The most corrupt Pope to ever sit on the papal throne who abandoned the League of Venice.
What is Pope Alexander VI (r. 1492-1503)?
A style of art in the mid to late-sixteenth century that permitted artists to express their own "manner" or feelings in contrast to the symmetry and simplicity of the art of the High Renaissance.
What is mannerism?
Famous for his tender madonnas and the great fresco in the Vatican, The School of Athens, a virtually perfect example of Renaissance technique.
What is Raphael?
This book was written as a practical guide for the nobility at the court of Urbina and embodies the highest ideals of Italian humanism.
What is The Book of Courtier?
Pope Julius II drove these people out of Romagna in 1509 when he fully secured the papal states.
What is the Venetians?