Definitions/ Names
A system of thought that centers on humans and their values, capacities, and worth.
What is Humanism ?
A type of art that become more wide spread during the Renianssance.
What are portraits and landscapes ?
A very skilled sculpture during the Renaissance
Who was Michelangelo?
This classical writer is most commonly considered the foundational thinker of the Western philosophical tradition.
Plato
who coined the terms Middle Ages and Renaissance.
Francesco Petrarch
A term for a politically independent city and the rural area around it .
What is a city -state ?
people who pay artists to produce works of art portraying the human body and the natural world.
What is a Patron
A Roman lawyer and politician who wrote " Cultivation of the Mind is as necessary as food to the body ."
Who was Cicero ?
an Italian scholar, poet, and humanist whose poems addressed to Laura, an idealized beloved, contributed to the Renaissance flowering of lyric poetry.
Petrarch
By age twenty-three, he had assembled truths from all the known world’s philosophers and religions into his list of 900 Theses.
Giovanni Pico della Mirandola
A word from Latin that means citizen, and implies being a good member of their society.
What is civic?
(double jeopardy ) This artist painted " The Birth of Venus".
Who was Sandro Botticelli ?
A humanist thinker who believed the classical past is far superior to his medieval world called dark ages .
Who was Francesco Petrarch ?
best remembered as the author of the earthy tales in the Decameron.
Who was Boccaccio ?
known as teachers who use strategies to teach others that they can improve their lives through their own effort.
What is a philosopher ?
This artist painted a famous painting know as school of the Athens
Who was Raphael ?
Who was an Italian polymath of the High Renaissance who was active as a painter, draughtsman, engineer, scientist, theorist, sculptor, and architect.
Who was Leonardo da Vinci ?
an Italian humanist scholar of the Renaissance.
Leonardo Bruni
the revival of European art and literature under the influence of classical models in the 14th–16th centuries.
What the term Renaissance ?
this famous artist painted the Mona Lisa
Leonardo Da vinci
An Italian astronomer, physicist, and engineer, sometimes described as a polymath who declared the earth revolved around the sun.
Who was Galileo Galilei?
has been described as the founder of a new political science: politics divorced from ethics
Machiavelli
was a Dutch humanist, Christian theologian, and pioneering philologist and educationalist. He was, through his writings and translations, one of the most influential scholars of the Northern Renaissance and a major figure of Western culture.
Desirderius Erasmus