The Renaissance Flashcards
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Key vocabulary for the Renaissance — art, philosophy, key figures, and inventions.
Flashcards
- Renaissance
- French for 'rebirth'; a cultural movement (1300s–1600s) reviving classical learning and producing breakthrough art and science.
- Humanism
- Renaissance philosophy celebrating human reason, potential, and individual achievement over strict religious doctrine.
- Leonardo da Vinci
- Renaissance polymath (1452–1519) — painter, scientist, anatomist, and engineer; painted the Mona Lisa and The Last Supper.
- Michelangelo
- Renaissance artist (1475–1564) who sculpted David and painted the Sistine Chapel ceiling for Pope Julius II.
- Raphael
- Renaissance painter (1483–1520) famous for his gentle Madonnas and the large fresco The School of Athens.
- Medici family
- Florentine banking dynasty whose wealth funded the Renaissance arts and scholarship in Italy.
- Patronage
- The financial support wealthy individuals gave to artists and scholars in exchange for artwork and prestige.
- Printing press
- Gutenberg's 1440 invention that mass-produced books, spreading Renaissance and Reformation ideas across Europe.
- Perspective
- An artistic technique, developed in the Renaissance, that creates the illusion of depth and three-dimensionality in paintings.
- Sistine Chapel
- A chapel in the Vatican whose ceiling Michelangelo painted (1508–1512), depicting scenes from Genesis.
- Petrarch
- Italian poet and scholar (1304–1374) often called the 'Father of Humanism' for his celebration of classical literature.
- Florence
- Italian city-state and birthplace of the Renaissance; home of the Medici family and great Renaissance artists.
- Polymath
- A person with expertise in many fields — Leonardo da Vinci is the most famous example from the Renaissance.
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