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Father of the Renaissance…
Petrarch
Famous patron family of Florence Who controlled banking
Medici’s
Italian monk who burned for criticizing the corruption of the clergy and society
Savonarola
Humanist who believed that rulers needed to be feared, not loved…
Machiavelli
Author of Utopia, advisor to Henry VIII and Christian Humanist
Thomas More
Center of banking and wool industry
Florence
Nation unified by marriage and religious wars ending in 1492
Spain
Decentralized state consisting of princes and seven Electors
Holy Roman Empire
Eventual winners of the Hundred Year’s War, had a deal to select its own clergy
France
Prized region for wool production, urban middle class with pre-Reformation ideals
Flanders, low countries
Theory that stressed classical education, well-roundedness and potential
Humanism
Theory that man was created in God’s image and were capable of using the Gospels to better society and religion in order to benefit mankind
Christian Humanism
According to Castiglione and others, the gender-role of educated women was…
Courtiers, pleasing hosts, beautiful muses
Focus on worldly and non-religious topics and themes
Secularism
Proponent of the idea that the Renaissance was unique and significant in history
Burkhardt Thesis
How was Renaissance warfare different than medieval?
No knights, mercenaries, longer range weapons, balance of power
How did guilds, politicians and wealthy elites win support from the people?
Patronage/propaganda, sponsor projects…
Give a method used by monarchs to limit the power of the regional nobles
Star Chamber, centralized laws/selection, tax business not noble loans, appoint officials
What problems frustrated Christian humanists about the Church?
Simony, pluralism, Latin, uneducated clergy, wasteful spending,
Compare the different view of success between the Italians and Northern humanists… consider the ideal life/person
Celebrity, flamboyantly wealthy, hero vs Celebrity, flamboyantly wealthy, hero vs. hardworking, devout, standard of living
Giving the illusion of 3D using vanishing points
Linear perspective
Portraits, free-standing statues, busts, and shading all were used to achieve this goal/method
Individualism
What is the message of this piece, why a dog?
Loyalty, beauty of natural form isn’t sinful or wrong
Locate an example of four different styles
Varies
Why is it so small?
Varies
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Explain two reasons why David is the perfect subject for Renaissance art
Non-divine, ancient, well-rounded, ingenuity, epic