Renaissance History
The movement of population as feudalism ended.
What are the peasants moving to towns to work and the nobility finding opportunities to buy property and hold public office?
Priests were able to speak Latin but ordinary people in their everyday language.
How was education learned during the Middle Ages?
This concept in Renaissance art focuses on the living world and the artist's ability to draw or sculpt the human form.
What is realism?
The inventor of the movable metal type and printing press.
Who is Johann Gutenberg?
This class of people focused on commerce and trade.
What is the mercantile class?
Natural crossroads between Europe, Africa, and Asia.
The Italian peninsula became a major trading center.
A free flow of ideas was being promoted.
What is the growth of the Italian city-states?
This is the focus of the new learning in the Renaissance.
What is the need for human beings to study the world around them and understanding their role in it?
This is a mathematical system for representing three-dimensional space on a flat surface. It revolutionized the development of painting in the Renaissance.
What is linear perspective?
Known as the "Renaissance Man" and his famous paintings include the Mona Lisa and the Last Supper.
Who is Leonardo da Vinci?
This term would contribute greatly to rise of literacy and having printed books to teach children how to read and write.
What is the vernacular?
This includes the importance of banking, the establishment of many types of businesses, and the artistic center of the Renaissance.
Why is Florence is considered the focal location of the Renaissance?
A cultural movement of the Renaissance based on the study of classical works and humans focusing on their self-worth.
What is humanism?
This is a way of balancing the parts of a design to make a pleasing whole.
What is proportion?
Ruled the banking system and were patron of the arts in the city of Florence.
These were the earliest forms of newspapers.
What are broadsheets?
There were 8 million to 20 million books printed by 1500.
What is the spread of the printing presses throughout Europe?
This book became less expensive to print and people were using it to learn how to read and write.
What is the Bible?
This individual's work has the most profound impact on the development of the English language.
Who is William Shakespeare?
An Italian writer who wrote the Divine Comedy; a long poem about an imaginary journey through hell and ending in heaven.
Who is Dante?
The view that religion need not be the center of human affairs.
The belief that the individual is more important than the community.
What are secularism and individualism?
The Church's attempt to restrict what people can or cannot read.
What is censorship?
The most famous incident of Church censorship which focused on a church doctrine being challenged by a new idea.
Who is Galileo and what he taught about the sun being in the center of the solar system and not the Earth?
A series of comic episodes usually a mischievous character.
What is a picaresque?
He wrote a secular book called the Prince which deals with how a leader gain, keep, and lose power.
Who is Niccolo Machiavelli?
This was when people began criticizing institutions such as the Church.
What is the self-expression in books and broadsheets that caused people to form their own ideas?