Historical Context
The meaning of the word Renaissance.
What is rebirth?
This appreciation inspired the Renaissance movement.
What is humanism?
In order to achieve realism and naturalism, artists studied this in depth.
What is human anatomy?
The "quintessential" Renaissance man.
Who is Leonardo da Vinci?
A painting by Raphael depicting a gathering of famous ancient philosophers.
What is "The School of Athens?"
The Renaissance movement flourished in this country.
Where is Italy?
Humanism focused on this aspect.
What are human achievements?
Many works still focused on Biblical stories, saints, and the Virgin Mary, but shown more realistically.
What are religious themes?
The "big three" artists of the Renaissance.
Who is Leonardo da Vinci, Michelangelo, and Raphael?
These groups supported artists and scholars during the Renaissance.
Who are wealthy families and powerful patrons?
The Renaissance was a turning point in art history after this long and stifling period.
What is the Middle Ages?
* Medieval Period
* Dark Ages
Many Renaissance paintings combined Christian themes with elements from these ancient civilizations.
What is Ancient Greece and Ancient Rome?
Applied to create symmetry and proportion to artwork, especially architectural compositions.
What are mathematical ratios?
A Renaissance artist who was primarily a sculptor rather than a painter.
The reason knowledge of Renaissance male artists outweighs that of women.
What are systemic, patriarchal barriers that excluded women from training, professional guilds, and education?
The notion of rebirth in relation to the Renaissance.
What is the revival of classical Greek and Roman art, literature, and knowledge?
An invention brought about by Renaissance artists that was used as a tool to convey people's identity, position, and values.
What is the classic portrait?
Used to create linear perspective and depth.
What are vanishing points and horizon lines?
This artists ended the Renaissance and started the art movement that followed.
Who is Caravaggio?
The Renaissance movement flourished in these three cities.
Where is Florence, Rome, and Venice?
The dates of the Renaissance movement.
When is 1400-1600 C.E.?
A popular subject for Renaissance painters depicting the archangel Gabriel appearing to Mary in a dream.
What is the Annunciation?
The ways in which Renaissance art differed from Medieval art.
What is the shift from flat symbolic work to three-dimensional, realistic, human-centered subjects?
The six most studied, and well known, Renaissance artists in history.
Who is Leonardo da Vinci, Michelangelo, Raphael, Donatello, Botticelli, and Titian.
A classic pose invented by the Ancient Greek sculptors brought back by a renaissance sculptor, in statue of David, where weight is shifted onto one leg.
What is contrapposto pose?