Flashcards
Renaissance
Cards in this deck (11)
- 1Renaissanceterms means rebirth; following the Middle Ages an explosion of creativity in art, writing, that started in northern Italy 1300's-1600's. Artists like Michaelangelo, Leonardo da Vinci were sponsored by wealthy patrons
- 2Key Characteristics of the Renaissance-renewed interest in the ancient Greeks & Romans
-humanism emphasized achievements of man & makes human being not God the center of attention - 3painter, inventor, scientist a good example of a "Renaissance man". He painted the Last Supper and the Mona LisaLeonardo da Vinci
- 4Michelangelopainted the ceiling of the Sistine Chapel and did the sculpture David and the La Pieta
- 5secularismused to describe the Renaissance. comes from the word secular, meaning of this world. A Medieval person was concerned with religion and the next world. A Renaissance person interested in THIS WORLD
- 6Protestant Reformationa split in the Catholic Church where a new type of Christianity called Protestantism was born. (This new sect did not recognize the authority of the pope.)
- 7a German monk took a list of 95 points where he thought the Church had gone wrong and nailed it to the door of a Catholic ChurchMartin Luther
- 8Sale of indulgencesallowed people to be forgiven of their sins when they paid the church money
- 9a separate split in England from the Catholic ChurchEnglish Reformation
- 10King Henry VIIIbreaks away from the Catholic Church in Rome so he can divorce his wife and have a son. create his own church called the Church of England aka The Anglican Church
- 11invented moveable type & the printing press. Printing press allowed for quick cheap book production. More books caused an increase in learning & literacy. AND THE SPREAD OF IDEASJohannes Gutenberg