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Vocab
The Northern Renaissance
The Italian Renaissance
Writers and their Works
Art and Artists
100
This word means rebirth
What is Renaissance?
100
He wrote sonnets and plays. Some of his works include Othello, Mid Summer Night's Dream, King Lear, and The taming of the Shrew.
Who is Shakespeare?
100
The rough time period that the Renaissance lasted.
What is 1300-1600?
100
This work tells the story of Dante's travels through hell, purgatory and heaven.
What is the Divine Comedy?
100
He painted the last supper.
Who is Leonardo DaVinci?
200
The native language.
What is vernacular?
200
Flemish painter that used oil-based paints to develop techniques that painters still use.
Who is Jan Van Eyck?
200
The banking family that were big supporters of the arts in Florence.
Who are the Medici family?
200
He wrote Utopia.
Who is Sir Thomas More?
200
He sculpted the marble version of David and painted the ceiling of the sistine chapel.
Who is Michelangelo?
300
A city and the surrounding territory that form an independent state.
What is a city-state?
300
This invention allowed more books to become available.
What is the printing press?
300
Revival of the learning and culture of the Greeks and Romans.
What is the Renaissance?
300
This work explains how a person can gain power and keep it in spite of his enemies.
What is The Prince?
400
Someone that financially supported the arts
What is a patron?
400
She was one of the first European writers to question different treatment of boys and girls.
Who is Christine de Pizan?
400
Master in every area of study, charming, witty, skilled rider, wrestler and swordsman.
What is a Renaissance man?
400
He wrote a book about 10 people that fled to a village in the country to escape the plague. The book was called the Decameron.
Who is Giovanni Boccaccio?
400
He painted the school of athens and the marriage of the virgin.
Who is Raphael?
500
An intellectual movement that focused on human potential and achievements.
What is humanism?
500
The focus of Christian Humanists.
What is reforming society?
500
He wrote the Laura Sonnet.
Who is Petrarch?
500
Parallel lines stretch away from a viewer, they seem to draw together until they meet at a spot on the horizon called the vanishing point.
What is perspective?