World History The Renaissance in Europe Unit 15 Vocabulary

– Renaissance artist that painted the Mona Lisa and Last supper. Known as the ideal Renaissance man

• . Leonardo de Vinci

• . Medici

• Michelangelo

• Shakespeare

Italian banking family who consolidated power in Florence. They were major patrons of the arts

• Medici

• Michelangelo

• Shakespeare

• Fresco

– painter and sculptor during the high Renaissance. Most famous work is painting of the sisting chapel ceiling of God’s creation on man

• Michelangelo

• Shakespeare

• Fresco

• The Prince

Famous English playwright, seen as the fighter of modern day story telling. His works are the basis of all literature and movies in English speaking world

• Shakespeare

• Fresco

• The Prince

• Humanism

painting that is done on fresh, wet plaster with water based paints

• Fresco

• The Prince

• Humanism

• Perspective

-- Famous work by Machiavelli. Guided European nobility and many world leaders on how to lead their kingdoms/sountries. Stated it is better to be feared than loved

 

• The Prince

• Humanism

• Perspective

• The courtier

Based on the study of the classics. The literature of ancient Greece and Rome. Humanists studied grammar, rhetoric, poetry, moral, philosophy, and history

 

• Humanism

• Perspective

• The courtier

• Rebirth

artistic techniques used to give the effect of three dimensional depth to two dimensional surfaces

• Perspective

• The courtier

• Rebirth

• Patron

– Book by Baldassure Castigeione on how a proper nobleman should act. Famous line a nobleman is born rather than made. Stated a nobleman needed to have have many talents and scholarly pursuits.

• The courtier

• . Rebirth

• Patron

• Muse

renewal, term is associated with the Renaissance when classical Greek, Roman works were rediscovered and advances in science and art were achieved

• Rebirth

• Patron

• Muse

• Dante