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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 [Show More]

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