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| Define Renaissance | A period of great intellectual and artistic ability which began in Italy and spread to Northern Europe |
| Define Humanism | Rebirth of liturature, painting, sculpture, attitude towards life |
| Who did the renaissance affect? | Elite, educted upper class. Those living in cities with access to materials and knowledge |
| Who and what were the patrons? | Upper class elites and church men who bought the work of the artists |
| Renaissance thinkers were concerned with? | Secular things over religion, nature, human form, human character, human intellect, human beings |
| How did the church feel about this movement? | They were uncomfortable with these ideas, they felt they'd no longer be needed |
| Was the Renaissance anti-Religious? Explain | No, most were religious people not reformers, they were interested in investigating |
| "Sopienta et eloquentia" | Wisdom and Knowledge |
| Well bred renaaissance men were expected to: | speak languages, write poetry, dance, be soldiers, play music, and be scholarly |
| "vomo universale" | universal man |
| "sprezzaturo" | effortless energy |
| How did Rens. feel about formal education? | There was a rejection of formal education, more emphasis on learning outside the universities |
| Humanist movement in a narrow sense | An intellectual movement |
| Humanist movement in a broad sense | Involved education, social reform, rejection of scholasticism and replaced it with an optimistic look on the human being |
| Triumuirate (3 main humanists) | Dante, Petrach, Boccacio |
| What civic duties were expressed? | Manners, how to behave as cititzen of a republic |
| What changed during the humanist period? | concept of politics, philopsophy, teachings of science, educational reform, and heritage |
| What was the vernacular of Northern Humanism | english, german, french, dutch, scandanavian |
| Vernacular of Humanism | Italian and Latin |
| What occurred in 1518 that impacted Northern Humanism? | The reformation |
| Was Northern Humanism Visual? Why or Why not? | No because Protestant religion prohibits fancy decorations, or monuments or such |
| Characteristics of the Humanist Arts | idealization of the human body, glorification of nature, use of pagan themes( gods), perspective, psychological moment in time, inclusion of patrons in paintings, use of classical form, connection science with art |
| What was the great work of Michealangelo? | The Sistene Chapel |
