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Who?
Who? Part II
Vocab
Vocab Part II
Misc.
100
Created the printing press.
Who is Johannes Gutenberg?
100
A famous poet and scholar of ancient Roman works.
Who is Petrarch?
100
A time of rebirth of interest in art and learning.
What is Renaissance?
100
New type of painting using watercolors on wet plaster.
What is frescoes?
100
This city-state became wealthy through trade and banking.
What is Florence?
200
Painted the ceiling of the Sistine Chapel?
Who is Michelangelo?
200
An English playwright who wrote tragedies and comedies.
Who is William Shakespeare?
200
Artisitic technique using light and shadows to soften edges.
What is is chiaroscuro?
200
Study of mapmaking.
What is cartography?
200
Urban nobility in Italy blended these groups by marriage?
What is wealthy merchants and nobles?
300
Wrote a book that inspired interest in China.
Who is Marco Polo?
300
An Italian scientist and artist.
Who is Leonardo da Vince?
300
To have more interest in this world than in religion.
What is secular?
300
The art of making deals with other governments.
What is diplomacy?
300
Differences in N. Europe artists to Italian artists.
What is oil paintings and engravings?
400
Wrote "The Divine Comedy."
Who is Dante Alghieri?
400
A family that grew wealthy through banking in Florence?
Who is the Medici Family?
400
Long narrow boats used for transport in Venice?
What is gondolas?
400
This new technique was developed in Flanders (N. Europe) in late Renaissance.
What is oil painting?
400
Roman ruins reminded Italians of their past, Italy was wealthy, and Italian city-states competed with one another.
What are the reasons Renaissance began in Italy?
500
A Florence artists that painted frescoes.
Who is Sandro Botticelli?
500
United Asia into a vast trade network.
Who is the Mongols?
500
Emphasized a balance between faith and reason.
What is humanism?
500
The head of a city-state in Italy.
What is a doge?
500
This city-state became wealthy from expert shipbuilders.
What is Venice?