Notes for Spring Quiz 10 (Day 1) Remember to make your own notes when you take this copy. Ch 13 Lesson 2 2. masterpiece (437) – A. Vocabulary (Chapter 13, Lesson 2) (Remember: write definitions in your own words and learn to spell them.) 1. movement (435) – 3. realism (437) – 4. portray (437) – 5. technique (437) – for question (Q) Column B. Birthplace of the Renaissance 6. literary (439) – 7. sonnets (440) – 1. began in the cities of northern Italy. a. Why? 1) once the center of the Roman Empire and classical ideas. 2) Trade routes went through it. a) Cities like Florence, Venice, Milan developed and became main places to exchange goods and ideas. b. Florence 1) by the Arno River 3) wealthy merchants became city leaders and bankers who became patrons (financial supporters of artists). 2) Artists lived and worked here. C. What was the Renaissance? 3. happened with growth of cities and more attention to human achievement (humanism) 1. movement of great creativity in art (painting), writing, architecture, mathematics, science, technology 2. time period (1300 – 1600 A.D.) a. word means rebirth (revival) 1) revival of learning about classical (Greek and Roman) ideas and achievements A) example was a banking family called Medici who ruled the city of Florence D. Examples of Advances 1. painting technique called “perspective.” (See page 437.) a. painters showed things in a a three-dimensional way (more realistic; page 436) 1) Before this change, Medieval paintings looked two-dimensional (appearing flat like the paintings in ancient Egypt) Why was Florence important to the growth of the Renaissance movement?

Notes for Spring Quiz 10 (Day 2) Remember to make your own notes when you take this copy. Ch 13 Lesson 2 for question (Q) Column E. Renaissance Poetry a. Petrarch and Michelangelo were examples of Renaissance sonnet writers. 1. sonnet – a poem of 14 lines (recall the haiku of Japan’s golden age.) D. Figures and their Achievements F. Renaissance Life How does the definition of humanism relate to Renaissance figures? 1. Leonardo da Vinci a. artist: painter 1) The Last Supper; Mona Lisa b. also excelled in science (astronomy, geometry, anatomy) 2. Michelangelo a. artist: painter 1) painted the ceiling of the Sistine Chapel in the city of Rome for the Catholic Church. b. artist: sculptor 1) statues of Moses and David 3. Raphael a. artist: painter 1) The School of Athens 4. Brunelleschi a. architect (engineering): 1) designed and built large church domes. a) created techniques to raise construction materials onto structures (hoists). 5. Dante a. writer: poet 1) The Divine Comedy 2) wrote in his vernacular (Italian) not the language of scholars (Latin) 6. Cervantes a. Spanish writer of novels 1) Don Quixote 7. Machiavelli a. writer 1) The Prince - the problem: first eight lines of words a. the pattern - the resolution (solution): last six lines of words 1. wealthy people (now called upper class) had time to study and appreciate classics (Greek and Roman works). 2. Most people did not benefit from Renaissance ideas and advances. (Benefits would come to later generations.) a. nobles and wealthy merchants 1) da Vinci example of a “Renaissance Man” or someone who excels in many activities. a) Goal is to become well-rounded; to master various subjects. b. Most wealthy women stayed at home as overseers of children’s education and overseers of servants. a. without formal education b. the poor c. tradespeople d. merchants without a lot of wealth.