Flashcards
Renaissance
Cards in this deck (5)
- 1Renaissance-terms 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
- 3Leonardo da Vincia painter, inventor, scientist a good example of a "Renaissance man". He painted the Last Supper and the Mona Lisa
- 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
