| A | B |
|---|
| Italians were important in the trade of this | spices and luxury goods |
| why Renaissance is considered the beginning of modern history | most western values of today developed at this time |
| Renaissance means this | rebirth |
| Characteristics of Middle Ages | Everything revolved around God and Church, man focused on life after death, feudalism and manorialism important |
| Renaissance focused on this | life on earth |
| Type of economy during Middle Ages | agricultural/feudal |
| Type of economy during Renaissance | capitalistic |
| Why Italy center of Renaissance trade | crossroads of trade routes from Far East to Europe |
| desire for earthly goods | materialism |
| Italian traders had extra money to spend so they did this | became patrons of the arts |
| a person who sponsored artists | patron |
| artistic technique which gives a painting dimension and depth | perspective |
| father of Renaissance painting | Giotto |
| subjects of medieval art | religion, Church |
| subjects of Renaissance art | man, religion, mythology, everyday life portraits |
| painting on wet plaster | fresco |
| Person interest and talented in many subjects | Renaissance man |
| family of patrons in Florence | de Medici |
| Italian city-state which was center of Renaissance art | Florence |
| Painted the ceiling of the Sistine Chapel in the Vatican | Michelangelo |
| Wrote The Prince | Machiavelli |
| Everyday language of the people | vernacular |
| First major work written in Italian | Divine Comedy |
| Made it easier to produce books | printing press |
| Italian poet known as father of humanism | Petrarch |
| Renaissance scholar who studied humanities and was interested in writings of ancient Greece and Rome | humanist |
| Artists of Italian Renaissance | da Vinci, Michelangelo, Raphael, Giotto |
| Belief a person is concerned only with worldly matters | secularism |
| How Renaissance princes should act | ends justifies the means, can do anything to gain and keep power |
| How Renaissance princes should act | be ruthless and clever, have absolute power |
| Wrote Praise of Folly criticizing the Church | Erasmus |
| Wrote Utopia about the perfect society | Sir Thomas More |
| Practical guide to how a leader should rule and keep power | The Prince |
| Where the Renaissance began | northern Italy |
| Cultures of these 2 countries reintroduced | Greece and Rome |
| Wrote love sonnets to Laura | Petrarch |
| Renaissance belief that glorified the abilities/character of a person's achievements | individualism |
| Book of etiquette for Renaissance society | The Book of the Courtier |
| New techniques of Renaissance art | perspective, oil based paints, chiaroscuro shading |
| Wrote Canterbury Tales about pilgrims journeying to Canterbury | Geoffrey Chaucer |
| Artists of northern Renaissance | Holbein, Durer, Brueghel |
| Technique of Da Vinci | perfect complexion, unimportant background |
| Technique of Giotto | perspective is off, religious paintings |
| Technique of Raphael | madonna and child-subject |
| Technique of Durer | black and white engravings |
| Technique of Holbein | portraits, everyday objects included |
| Technique of Brueghel | Everyday people doing everyday things |
| Technique of Michelangelo | Delineated muscles, religious paintings and sculptures |
| Technique of Donatello | Sculptures of marble and bronze, not as muscular |
| WD--Renaissance | cultural movement which began in Italy in the 1300's and spread throughout Europe |
| WD--humanism | Renaissance movement based on the literature and ideas of ancient Greece and Rome and the importance of the individual |
