Renaissance Flashcard

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What role did wealthy Italian merchants and nobles play during the Renaissance?

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Patrons supporting artists, writers, and scholars

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What did Renaissance thinkers believe in, similar to the ancient Greeks?

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Power of human reason

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What did the rules of perspective help artists calculate?

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How things recede in the distance

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What technique did Leonardo Da Vinci use to make subjects appear lifelike?

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Shadowing and blurring lines

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What did Renaissance architects study to develop a new style?

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Ruins of buildings in ancient Rome

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What did new methods of criticizing texts lead some, like Erasmus, to do?

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Question the Church

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According to Machiavelli, what justifies the means?

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The end

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What was a key belief of the Protestant Reformation?

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Salvation through faith alone

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What is the artistic technique that is used to show depth and distance on a flat surface?

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perspective

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Humanism...

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focuses on the potential of humans to achieve