The Italian Renaissance Terms/People

Flanders

• Someone who provides support to a specific cause and/or person/people.

• 16th-century religious, political, intellectual and cultural upheaval that splintered Catholic Europe, setting in place the structures and beliefs that would define the continent in the modern era.

• Area in Northern France that was a center of trade that helped spread the Renaissance to Germany, Spain, France & England.

• the language or dialect spoken by the ordinary people in a particular country or region.

 “Renaissance Man”

• A powerful Italian family of bankers and merchants whose members effectively ruled Florence for much of the 15th century. Cosimo and Lorenzo de’ Medici were notable rulers and patrons of the arts in Florence.

• A philosophical movement during the Renaissance that stressed life on Earth and the quality of being human. Rejected living only for the afterlife of Christianity.

• Reacting against the Protestants, it reaffirmed traditional Catholic beliefs and formulated the ideals of the Counter- Reformation. It has been described as the embodiment of the Counter-Reformation.

• Person (often a genius) who knows a great deal about many things (Ex: Leonardo painted, sculpted, made drawings of inventions that demonstrate knowledge of math and science.)

Humanism

• Letters of forgiveness for one’s sins provided by the medieval Church, and one for the causes of the Reformation.

• A philosophical movement during the Renaissance that stressed life on Earth and the quality of being human. Rejected living only for the afterlife of Christianity.

• 16th-century religious, political, intellectual and cultural upheaval that splintered Catholic Europe, setting in place the structures and beliefs that would define the continent in the modern era.

• a form of government in which a country is ruled by religious leaders.

Raphael

• Italian painter and architect whose works, including religious subjects, portraits, and frescoes.

• Early Renaissance humanist who revived classic Greek and Roman transcripts reviving people interest in these classics. Often referred as starting the Italian Renaissance

• An Italian sculptor, painter, poet, engineer, and architect. Famous works include the mural on the ceiling of the Sistine Chapel, and the sculpture of the biblical character David.

• An Italian painter, sculptor, engineer, and inventor. Famous works include paintings such as the Mona Lisa and the Last Supper. Also left a variety of sketches showing flying machines and underwater boats centuries before the invention of planes and submarines.

Petrarch

• Early Renaissance humanist who revived classic Greek and Roman transcripts reviving people interest in these classics. Often referred as starting the Italian Renaissance

• An Italian sculptor, painter, poet, engineer, and architect. Famous works include the mural on the ceiling of the Sistine Chapel, and the sculpture of the biblical character David.

• Italian historian, statesman, and political philosopher of the Renaissance. His greatest work is The Prince, a book of political advice to rulers.

• An Italian painter, sculptor, engineer, and inventor. Famous works include paintings such as the Mona Lisa and the Last Supper. Also left a variety of sketches showing flying machines and underwater boats centuries before the invention of planes and submarines.

Patrons

• A philosophical movement during the Renaissance that stressed life on Earth and the quality of being human. Rejected living only for the afterlife of Christianity.

• the language or dialect spoken by the ordinary people in a particular country or region.

• Someone who provides support to a specific cause and/or person/people.

• Dutch humanist that translated the bible into local vernacular. He also challenged the how the Catholic church was being run.

Leonardo da Vinci

• An Italian painter, sculptor, engineer, and inventor. Famous works include paintings such as the Mona Lisa and the Last Supper.

• An Italian sculptor, painter, poet, engineer, and architect. Famous works include the mural on the ceiling of the Sistine Chapel, and the sculpture of the biblical character David.

• Italian painter and architect whose works, including religious subjects, portraits, and frescoes, exemplify the ideals of the High Renaissance.

• Danish astronomer who continued Copernicus’s ideas by studying the movement of planets over years

Medici family

• Italian historian, statesman, and political philosopher of the Renaissance. His greatest work is The Prince.

• 16th-century religious, political, intellectual and cultural upheaval that splintered Catholic Europe, setting in place the structures and beliefs that would define the continent in the modern era.

• The movement initiated by the Catholic Church to contain the Protestant Reformation and, if possible, end it.

• A powerful Italian family of bankers and merchants whose members effectively ruled Florence for much of the 15th century.

Michelangelo

• An Italian painter, sculptor, engineer, and inventor. Famous works include paintings such as the Mona Lisa and the Last Supper

• An Italian sculptor, painter, poet, engineer, and architect. Famous works include the mural on the ceiling of the Sistine Chapel, and the sculpture of the biblical character David.

• Italian painter and architect whose works, including religious subjects, portraits, and frescoes, exemplify the ideals of the High Renaissance.

• Polish astronomer who put forth the idea of a heliocentric universe where the Sun is at the center of our solar system.

Niccolo Machiavelli

• Theologian and religious reformer who started the Reformation with his 95 Theses which protested church corruption, namely the sale of indulgences.

• Early Renaissance humanist who revived classic Greek and Roman transcripts reviving people interest in these classics. Often referred as starting the Italian Renaissance

• Italian historian, statesman, and political philosopher of the Renaissance. His greatest work is The Prince

• Dutch humanist that translated the bible into local vernacular. He also challenged the how the Catholic church was being run.