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Arts in Transition
100
Killed 1/3-1/2 of Europe's population.
What is The Black Death?
100
This 14th century writer wrote a group of short stories known as the Canterbury Tales.
Who is Geoffrey Chauncer?
100
The increasing need for Church revenue led some of the Avignon popes to sell church office.
What is simony?
100
Published in Venice in 1570 by Andrea Palladio.
What is The Four Books of Architecture?
100
The objection attention to human society and social interaction.
What is Social Realism?
200
The war fought because of the english claims to continental lands, creating great financial and physical burdens for the french.
What is The Hundred Year's War?
200
This Florentine artist gave is figures a three dimensional presence not seen since Roman Times.
Who is Giotto?
200
Pardons from temporal penalties for sins committed by lay christians.
what is indulgences?
200
Sculpted by Michelangelo and Completed in 1504, stands at 13 feet 5 inches in Accademia, Florence.
What is the statue of David?
200
A prolific writer of Italian prose romances and lyric poetry. Also the best biographer of Dante.
Who is Boccaccio?
300
A document that means great charter and was the rise of the Constitutional Monarchy.
What is Magna Carta?
300
This practical system helped merchants to maintain systematic records of transactions in what was the soundest currency in the west, the Florentine of gold florin.
What is Double-Entry book keeping?
300
A split in the College of Cardinals between the french and Italian factions and also leads to a election between two contesting pope's, one in Avignon and one in Rome.
What is The Great Schism?
300
A Sculptor, architect, and theorist and inaugurated the revival of classical architecture in the time of 1377-1446.
Who is Filippo Brunelleschi?
300
The worlds first feminist writer and the daughter of an Italian physician.
Who is Christine de Pisan?
400
Commercial rivalry among the Italian city-states led to this problem often.
What is Civil Wars?
400
The young wife of a Florentine merchant, Francesco del Gioconda and painted by Leonardo da Vinci.
Who is Mona Lisa?
400
one event that proved most damaging to the prestige of the Catholic Church but also describes the relocation of the papacy in response to political pressure.
What is Avignon Papacy?
400
A famous goldsmith and sculptor and won the competition for a set of bronze relief panels for the north door of the Florence Baptistery of San Giovanni.
Who is Lorenzo Ghiberti?
400
Was one of the greatest masters if the 14th century vernacular literature.
Who is Chaucer?
500
Three weapons used by the English in the Hundred years war.
What is foot soldier, long bow and gunpowder?
500
Known as the second great High Renaissance artist, was Urbina-born, and painted The Alba Madonna.
Who is Raphael?
500
He idealized likeness of the biblical hero David, also the most creative force in Early Renaissance, and completing in 1432 was the first freestanding, life sized nude since antiquity in the time of 1386-1466.
Who is Donato Bardi also known as Donatello?
500
Technological innovations that made warfare increasingly impersonal.
What is gunpowder?
500
Reflected a new interest in the manipulation of the pitches and rhythms, gave unprecedented unity to musical compositions.
What is Isorhythm?