Origins of Renaissance
A period that began in the 1300's.
What is The Renaissance?
Trading Route from Europe to Asia.
What is the Silk Road?
The period following the Middle Ages, characterized by renewed interest in Greek and Roman culture and an emphasis on people as individuals
What is The Renaissance?
A method of showing a three-dimensional scene on a flat surface so that it looks real.
What is Perspective?
He considered Italian, the people’s language, to be as good as Latin.
Signoria
What is a single rich family that controlled the government?
Classic writing and art was brought to Italy. Classic means...
What is cultures of ancient Greece and Rome?
The most beautiful trade city.
What is Florence?
The cost of borrowing money.
What is interest?
Raphael, Botticelli, Titian, Michelangelo, Leonardo da Vinci.
Who were some of the great artists of the Italian Renaissance?
During his time in China, he served as a government official.
Who is Marco Polo?
Written in Spanish; story about an old man who becomes a Knight and pokes fun at silly romantic stories of the middle ages.
What is Don Quixote?
Popular book translated to 100's of languages.
What is the Bible?
They are: Milan, Genoa, Venice, Florence.
What were the 4 Italian Trade Cities?
Rich man who is known for banks during the Renaissance.
Who is Cosimo de Medici?
Emphasized the actions and abilities of humans, people earning fame for their accomplishments.
What are basic ideas of Humanism?
Italian writer & poet; wrote The Prince.
Who is Niccolo Machiavelli?
Cosimo de Medici admired this artist for his knowledge, judgment, and art.
Who is Michelangelo?
Language used during the Classic Era.
What is Latin?
Reason Genoa and Venice were important in the trade between Asia and the rest of Europe.
What are the Port cities along trade routes?
What are the cities on the water near trade routes?
Mathematicians during the Renaissance created common symbols used today such as the square root, ________________, and ________________ signs.
What are the Positive and negative signs?
It caused knowledge to spread and flourish.
What is the Printing Press?
German Painter who invented the Printing Press.
Who is Johann Gutenberg?
Leonardo da Vinci studied _______ to learn more about the human body and its organs.
What is a cadaver?
What are Science & Education?
Trade goods from Asia poured into Europe; merchant families became rich and powerful; wealthy families contributed to the arts and learning.
What were the results of increased trading?
Unlike in Italy, northern scholars, focused on a blend of humanist and religious idea known as...
What is Religious or Christian Humanism?
Artists who often painted realistic scenes from daily life.
Who are Northern Renaissance artists?
Wrote the Rules of Algebra.
Who is Girolamo Cardano?
Albrecht Durer
Who is famous for woodcuts and paintings.