A period of rebirth and creativity in art, writing, and thought from about 1400 to 1600 C.E, beginning in Italy and eventually spreading throughout Europe.
Renaissance
What does renaissance mean?
rebirth
What were the wealthy people that sponsored art and literature called?
Patrons
Definition: a rebirth or revival
Renaissance
People like da Vinci and Michelangelo were considered ideal ________ men.
What is Renaissance?
Name at least 3 artists are from the Renaissance Art Period
Raphael, Michaelangelo, and Leonardo da Vinci
The Renaissance was a time of...
cultural and philisophical change
Who painted the Mona Lisa?
Leonardo Davinci
An intellectual movement in which thinkers studied classical texts and focused on human potential and achievements
humanism
They were the major family of the Italian Renaissance movement (first 'mafia' family)
The Medici family
Who painted the Sistine Chapel and sculpted the David?
Michelangelo
What was the impact of the invention of the printing press? (name at least 2)
It helped spread Renaissance ideas and people became more literate
He was the father of humanism.
Who is Petrarch?
An artistic technique that creates the appearance of three dimensions on a flat surface.
perspective
Renaissance artist and writers were obsessed with ancient ____ and _____.
Greece and Rome
What famous painter from Germany painted this....
Albrecht Durer
Humanism, which was intellectually what The Renaissance was based on, was all about __________.
the value of human beings and their capacities
Who invented the printing press?
Johann Guttenberg
The act of questioning everything.
What is skepticism?
Who was the monarch in England during the Renaissance?
Queen Elizabeth I
Explain perspective.
Making images look 3D on a 2D surface
The Renaissance began when the ______________ ended.
Middle Ages
He was a Flemish artist of the Northern Renaissance famous for his painting of the Arnolfini Wedding.
Who is Jan van Eyck?
Meaning concerned with worldly matters instead of spiritual ones.
What is secular?
This century saw the height of the Renaissance.
What is the 15th century