Darty EUH 2000
Chapter Eleven "The Italian Renaissance" Exam Terms
Darty EUH 2000
Chapter Eleven "The Italian Renaissance" Exam Terms
| renaissance--definition |
| Sculpture: Donatello--linear perspective, naturalistic forms, Judith Slaying Holofernes |
| Painting: Gentile Bellini The Procession of the Relic of the Holy Cross (1496), perspective, Masaccio--chiarascuro (shading light and dark), linear perspective, The Expulsion of Adam and Eve and The Holy Trinity; Piero della Francesca The Resurrection; Sandro Botticelli The Birth of Venus and Spring, international style, monumental style, mannerism |
| Architecture: Leon Battista Alberti On Building, civic architecture, Brunelleschi--geometric principles and perspective, Florence Cathedral |
| Leonardo Da Vinci, "universal man", The Last Supper and La Gioconda (Mona Lisa) |
| Michelangelo Buonarotti, Pieta, David, Sistine Chapel, Saint Peter's Cathedral--great dome |
| Literature: Giorgio Vasari Lives of the Great Painters, Sculptors, and Architects (1550), Pico della Mirandola Oration on the Dignity of Man (1486), Castiglione Baldassore The Courtier (1528)--sprezzatura, Niccolo Machiavelli The Prince (1513)--virtu |
| Intellectualism: neoplatonism--Plato, humanism, characteristics/buzzwords of humanism, philology--Lorenzo Valla, rhetoric, liberal arts program, Petrarch, Leonardo Bruni, Marsilio Ficino, deductive vs inductive reasoning, |
| Patrons: Isabella d'Este, Pope Nicholas V, Pope Alexander VI, Pope Julius II, Pope Leo X |
| urban centers, artisans, sharecropping, monopolies, luxury imports, circular trade |
| Culture: gender, parentage, primogeniture, wet nurses, nuclear families, marriage--dowry, pregnancy rates--fertility, Leon Battista Alberti On the Family, disease, better diet |
| city-state, Five Powers--Naples, Papal States, Florence--money and wool, the Medici--Cosimo and Lorenzo the Great, Venice--doge, oligarchy, Great Council, Book of Gold, Milan, signorial rule, condottieri, Peace of Lodi, terra firma, Wars of Italy (1494-1529) |
| Mehmed II--Sultan of the Ottomans, fall of Constantinople (1453) |
| high arts vs. minor arts |
