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Italian Personalities Italian Renaissance Vocabulary Northern Renaissance Northern Personalities Renaissance

WORTH: What is Florence? This Italian city-state is considered the birthplace of the Italian Renaissance SUBJECT: Italian Renaissance MAIN

WORTH: Who were the Medici ( Cosimo and Lorenzo) to name a few? This was the patron family of bankers that financed many artists during the Italian Renaissance MAIN SUBJECT: Italian Renaissance

WORTH: Who was Filippo Brunelleschi? He was the architect for the largest dome built during the Renaissance, which is still one of the largest built with natural materials MAIN SUBJECT: Italian Renaissance

WORTH: Who was Giorgio Vasari? He was the Italian artist, and designer of the Uffizi Gallery in Florence, who became the biographer and historian of his era, and wrote Lives of the Most Eminent Painters, Sculptors, and Architects MAIN SUBJECT: Italian Renaissance

WORTH: What The Prince, by Machiavelli? This was the book and political guide that stated, “It is better to be feared than loved” and “The end justifies the means” MAIN SUBJECT: Italian Renaissance

WORTH: Who was Michelangelo Buonarroti of Florence? He was the Italian artist who sculpted the David, and the Pieta, and painted the ceiling of the Sistine Chapel as well as designed the dome of St. Peter’s Cathedral in Rome SUBJECT: Italian Personalities MAIN

WORTH: Who was Raphael Santi? He was the young artist and architect who painted, “The School of Athens”, and numerous paintings of the Virgin Mary or Madonna and died at the age of 37 on his birthday MAIN SUBJECT: Italian Personalities

WORTH: Who were Boccaccio and Petrarch? The death of these two Italian writers and humanists in signified to many historians the start of the Italian Renaissance MAIN SUBJECT: Italian Personalities

WORTH: Who was Baldassare Castiglione He authored the “ Book of the Courtier” which detailed the qualities of a Renaissance gentleman and lady MAIN SUBJECT: Italian Personalities

WORTH: Who was Donatello Bardi? He was the Italian sculptor and architect who designed and sculpted the first free standing soldier on horseback since Roman times MAIN SUBJECT: Italian Personalities

WORTH: What is humanism and the study of the humanities? This would be another name for the study of and the intellectual movement that accompanied the rediscovery of Greek and Roman teachings as well as rhetoric, grammar, history, and poetry MAIN SUBJECT: Vocabulary-Terms

WORTH: What was Engraving? This was the style of art perfected by Durer in Germany using copper and wood prints which often depicted scenes of religious upheaval and turmoil MAIN SUBJECT: Vocabulary-Terms

WORTH: What was the vernacular? The term used to define the writing of texts in the local language that could be understood by local readers. ( Dante, Petrarch – Italian, Chaucer – English, etc MAIN SUBJECT: Vocabulary-Terms

WORTH: What was oil painting, made with linseed, poppy or walnut oil? This is the type of painting or technique of painting developed and perfected by the Van Eyck brothers and demonstrated on the front of the AP European history Book in the Portrait of Giovanni Arnolfini and his Wife” MAIN SUBJECT: Vocabulary-Terms

WORTH: What was a utopia or utopian? This is the term that means the ideal, and often impractical, perfect society MAIN SUBJECT: Vocabulary-Terms

WORTH: Who was Thomas More ( A Man For All Seasons)? He wrote the book Utopia, which describes an ideal society on an island in the Atlantic, where gold, silver and jewels have no value and was later executed by Henry VIII when he failed to approve the King’s divorce SUBJECT: Northern Renaissance MAIN

WORTH: What are the Netherlands, Belgium, Luxembourg, and Northern France ( Benelux)? These would be the modern countries that made up the area of Flanders MAIN SUBJECT: Northern Renaissance

WORTH: Who was Francois Rabelais? He was the French humanist who was a monk and physician and wrote Gargantua and Pantagruel, a tale of two wandering giants who not so subtly poke fun at French Society and the Catholic Church MAIN SUBJECT: Northern Renaissance

WORTH: What was Gutenberg’s Printing Press? This device helped spread the diverse humanist ideas and messages of religious reform of the Northern Renaissance MAIN SUBJECT: Northern Renaissance

WORTH: What was Don Quixote written by Miguel Cervantes? This was the book written by a former Spanish soldier and slave ( captured by Barbary pirates) that poked fun at chivalry and revealed insights into Spanish life MAIN SUBJECT: Northern Renaissance

WORTH: Who was Desiderius Erasmus? He is considered the greatest of the Northern Humanists who influenced Luther, Zwingli, and Calvin SUBJECT: Northern Personalities MAIN

WORTH: Who was Albrecht Durer? He was the “German Leonardo” who studied in Italy and painted portraits, as well as several self portraits and created elaborate wood and copper prints MAIN SUBJECT: Northern Personalities

WORTH: Who was William Shakespeare? He was England’s greatest playwright and wrote 37 plays which are still performed today in theatres around the world MAIN SUBJECT: Northern Personalities

WORTH: Who was Peter Paul Rubens also Pee Wee Herman’s real name ? He was the Flemish painter who blended the trends of Italian Renaissance painting with classical themes using large voluptuous women MAIN SUBJECT: Northern Personalities

WORTH: Who was Pieter Bruegel or “Peasant Bruegel”? He was the Flemish painter who painted scenes of peasant life using brilliant colors and religious and classical themes with a background of common people MAIN SUBJECT: Northern Personalities