Module 14: Renaissance (voc)

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Renaissance

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The 'rebirth' or revival of art and learning, 1300 to 1600 in Europe

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Humanism

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An intellectual movement that focused on human potential and achievements

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Secular

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Focused on 'worldly' rather than spiritual(religious) and concerned with the here and now, instead of the hereafter.

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Patrons

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People who financially supported artists in the Renaissance.

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Perspective

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A way of showing three dimensions on a flat surface.

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Michelangelo

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(1475-1564) 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. He used a realistic style when painting the human body.

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Leonardo da' Vinci

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(1452-1519) A well known Italian Renaissance artist, architect, musician, mathematician, engineer, and scientist. Known for painting the Mona Lisa. Known as a 'Renaissance Man.'

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Utopia

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A book by Thomas More, he wrote about an imagined place or state of things in which everything is perfect.

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William Shakespeare

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(1564 - 1616) English poet and playwright considered one of the greatest writers of the English language; works include Julius Caesar, Macbeth, Romeo and Juliet, and Hamlet.

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Johann Gutenberg

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German printer who was the first in Europe to print using movable type and the first to use a press (1400-1468)