Renaissance Culture Flashcards
What was vernacular literature
Dante-divine comedy-Italian
Chauesr-Canterbury tales–English (social mobility)
When was the “artist” born
Def: an uncommon individual free to innovate Gathering in one place-Florence Treatise All art was moral-virtue Art-revealed mind and soul
What was art usually about
Bible-mythology
Nature
Beauty
For yourself-
Who was Ghiberti
Treatise
Who was Vasari?
Lives-great artists-techniques
Who was cimabue
First great/realistic
Who was Masaccio
Frescoes- Perspective Geometry Anatomy Light
Depth-“reality”
Who was Donatello
Free standing statues
Who was Brunelleschi
Architec-churches-arch-columns
Who was Da Vinci
Idealism
Who was Raphael
Madonnas-Mary
School of Athens
Who was Michelangelo
Sculptor–painter
Sistine chapel
Critic of oil painting-every stroke final stroke
Who was Van Eyck
Oil painting–colors
Who was Durer
-Adoration of the Magi
What was humanism
Grammar (debating)-rhetoric-philosophy-music-poetry
Physical activity
Virtue-wisdom
