General Ren.
Meaning of Renaissance
What is "new-birth" or "re-birth"?
This person is at the top of the feudal pyramid
Who is the king?
List the 7 Liberal Arts
Grammar, Logic, Rhetoric, Arithmetic, Geometry, Astronomy, Music
Name 4 Renaissance artists
Michelangelo, Da Vinci, Raphael, Donatello, Brunelleschi, Vermeer, Rembrandt, etc.
What did kings try to do during the Renassiance?
Centralize
The country the Renaissance started in
Italy
This plague began to loosen the bonds of serfdom
What is the Black Death/Bubonic Plague
Define humanism (2 definitions)
Belief in the achievement of man/significance of hu man activity and a tradition of classical scholarship
Explain proper/linear perspective
Relative size and shape based on an imaginative point in the distance
What four states in Europe centralized?
France, England, Spain, Russia
The timeframe of the Renaissance
What is mid 14th-mid/late 16th centuries
Two methods used by nobility to maintain their aristocratic status
What is education and a courtly class?
What invention revolutionized the West and allowed for the spread of ideas
What is the Printing Press
1480-1520
What French king got permission to to build a royal army and levy annual taxes?
Charles VII
What is bartering system?
Name three of the five powerful Italian city states that controlled Italy during the Renaissance
Milan, Venice, Florence, Papal States, Naples
Who was the "father of the renaissance?"
What did the Northern Renaissance focus more on?
Altarwork and detailed portraits rather than the frescos of the Italian churches (Northern = masters of observable detail)
What is the Inquisition?
Institution of the Catholic Church tasked with ferreting out "true Christians"
Fleet that travelled from Italy to to England and the Netherlands
What is the Venetian Flanders Fleet?
These "job" developed to go to other states and stay there to find out information that would best serve their own state
Who is resident diplomat?
Explain the Hermetic School
School of thought that developed the theory that God as a whole is in all things (pantheistic Gnosticism)
This was the first person to use oil paint and is from Flanders
Jan van Eyck
This pope was known as the warrior-pope
Julius II