AP Euro Chapter 2 Questions and
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Medici Family ✔✔Ruled Florence during the Renaissance, became wealthy from banking, spent
a lot of money on art, controlled Florence for about 3 centuries
Cosimo de Me
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AP Euro Chapter 2 Questions and
Answers Rated A+
Medici Family ✔✔Ruled Florence during the Renaissance, became wealthy from banking, spent
a lot of money on art, controlled Florence for about 3 centuries
Cosimo de Medici ✔✔Italian financier and statesman and friend of the pope he helped get into
papal office. Supported Brunneleschi's completion of the Duomo. He also commissioned public
art for the city of Florence.
Machiavelli's The Prince ✔✔A short political treatise about political power how the ruler should
gain, maintain, and increase it. Machiavelli explores the problems of human nature and concludes
that human beings are selfish and out to advance their own interests
Sack of Rome, 1527 ✔✔May 5, 1527 - A military event carried out by the mutinous troops of
Charles V, Holy Roman Emperor in Rome, then part of the Papal States. It marked a crucial
imperial victory in the conflict between Charles I of Spain Holy Roman Emperor, and the League
of Cognac (1526-1529) — the alliance of France, Milan, Venice, Florence and the Papacy.
Charles V ✔✔Holy Roman emperor (1519-1558) and king of Spain as Charles I (1516-1556). He
summoned the Diet of Worms (1521) and the Council of Trent (1545-1563).
Humanism ✔✔an intellectual movement at the heart of the Renaissance that focused on education
and the classics
Civic Humanism ✔✔the individual is responsible for applying his knowledge for public service
Petrarch ✔✔(1304-1374) Father of the Renaissance. He believed the first two centuries of the
Roman Empire to represent the peak in the development of human civilization.
Bocaccio's The Decameron ✔✔A work that portrays an acquisitive, sensual, and worldly society
through descriptions of merchants, friars, and husbands
Baldassare Castiglione's Book of the Courtier ✔✔Epitomized the main ideas of Italian humanism.
Said a successful man was one who could integrate knowledge of ancient languages and history
with athletic, musical, and military skills, all while being polite and exhibiting a high moral
character.
virtu ✔✔The striving for excellence and being a virtuous person. Humanistic aspect of
Renaissance.
Johannes Gutenberg ✔✔1400-1468. German goldsmith and printer who is credited with inventing
movable printing type in Europe abround 1439. Created the 42-line Gutenberg Bible, noted for its
high aesthetic and technical quality. HIs printing technology was a key factor in the European
Renaissance, and is considered on eof the most important inventions of all time.
quattrocentro ✔✔The cultural and artistic events of 15th century Italy, encompasses the artistic
styles of the late Middle Ages (most notably International Gothic) and the early Renaissance.
perspective ✔✔viewpoint, sense of proportion
chiaroscuro ✔✔The treatment of light and shade in a work of art, especially to give an illusion of
depth.
Brunelleschi ✔✔Italian architect, celebrated for work during Florentine Renaissance. He was antiGothic. Foundling Hospital in Florence.
High Renaissance ✔✔centered in Rome and the Popes provided tremendous patronage to the arts.
It featured classical balance, harmony, and restraint
Leonardo Da Vinci ✔✔Italian painter, engineer, musician, and scientist. The most versatile genius
of the Renaissance, Leonardo filled notebooks with engineering and scientific observations that
were in some cases centuries ahead of their time. As a painter Leonardo is best known for The Last
Supper (c. 1495) and Mona Lisa (c. 1503).
The School of Athens ✔✔Raphael - Italian Renassaince fresco wall painting of Greek philosophers
drawn to scale in accordance with the vantage point of the viewer. The placement, in the center of
the archway, of Plato and Aristotle emphasizes the importance of these two central figures.
Raphael shows his style of basic one-point perspective converging in a single vanishing point just
behind Plato and Aristotle. The exception is the cube in the foreground which gives a two-point
perspective. It easy to see, that with the removal of the figures, the building is symmetrically
balanced.
David ✔✔A large marble statue made by Michelangelo of the biblical king of the same name.
Michelangelo porrays him as a youth just about to do battle with the giant Goliath.
Ceiling of the Cistine Chapel ✔✔One of Michelangelo's only paintings, but considered as part of
one of his greatest works of art (Creation of Adam)
Northern Renaissance ✔✔the movement in Art in Germany and Flanders that reflected greater
religious tones; , Emphasized Critical Thinking, Developed Christian Humanism criticizing the
church & society, Painting/ Woodcuts/Literature
Christian Humanism ✔✔a movement that developed in northern Europe during the renaissance
combining classical learning with the goal of reforming the catholic church
In Praise of Folly ✔✔Written by Erasmus, criticized the Christian Church through the use of satire.
Utopia ✔✔a book by Sir Thomas More (1516) describing the perfect society on an imaginary
island
Isabella d'Este ✔✔Marchesa of Mantua and one of the leading women of the Italian Renaissance
as a major cultural and political figure. She
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