Humanism: a cultural revolution -key characteristics & humanists

... is the medieval belief that God is at the centre of the world.

• Anthropocentrism

• Heliocentrism

• Theocentrism

... is the modern belief that human beings are at the centre of nature.

• Anthropocentrism

• Heliocentrism

• Theocentrism

... was a cultural movement based on a new way of thinking that broke with medieval values and considered humans as free beings capable of rational thought.

• The Baroque

• Humanism

• The Renaissance

... was an artistic movement that began in the Modern Age in Western Europe and borrowed elements of classical Greek and Roman culture.

• The Baroque

• Humanism

• The Renaissance

... drew Vitruvian Man in about 1487 using the proportions of the human body described by the architect Vitruvius.

• Leonardo da Vinci

• Miguel Ángel

• Sandro Botticelli

A scientist who practised anatomy to learn how the human body worked:

• Andreas Vesalius

• Baldassare Castiglione

• Erasmus of Rotterdam

• Francesco Petrarca

• Giovanni Pico della Mirandola

A scientist who proposed the heliocentric theory (the Earth revolves around the Sun):

• Baldassare Castiglione

• Andreas Vesalius

• Francesco Petrarca

• Nicolaus Copernicus

• Giovanni Pico della Mirandola

He is considered to be one of the earliest humanists:

• Francesco Petrarca

• Louise Labé

• Baldassare Castiglione

• Niccolò Machiavelli

• Erasmus of Rotterdam

A political scientist who described a model in which all actions were justified by reason of state:

• Erasmus of Rotterdam

• Niccolò Machiavelli

• Giovanni Pico della Mirandola

• Nicolaus Copernicus

• Andreas Vesalius

A humanist who imagined an ideal society without social inequalities:

• Erasmus of Rotterdam

• Louise Labé

• Niccolò Machiavelli

• Thomas More

• Baldassare Castiglione