World History; Semester 1 Review, Part 1

An intellectual movement at the heart of the Italian Renaissance

Subjects such as grammar, rhetoric poetry, and history

A Florentine who lived in the 1300s and was an early Renaissance humanist, poet and scholar

A city in the Tuscany region of northern Italy that was the center of the Italian Renaissance

A financial supporter of the arts

Artistic technique used to give paintings and drawings a three-dimensional affect

An artist with endless curiosity. Leonardo da Vinci painted the Mona Lisa and The Last Supper

A sculptor, engineer, painter, and poet. Michelangelo created the David and painted the Sistine Chapel

An artist who painted The School of Athens

An author who wrote The Book of the Courtier, which describes the manners, skills, learning, and virtues that a member of the court should have

The author of The Prince, talks about rulers who had ruthless power

Characteristics include more creativity in a worldview, newly discovered methods for exploring, and creative poetry and grammar

Florence, Italy was the heart of the Renaissance, thus making it a favorable area

Artists such as Michelangelo, and Leonardo da Vinci used the skills in their paintings such as perspective

Writers such as Castiglione wrote books that reflected on the Renaissance that occurred in Italy

Printed the first edition of the Bible using the printing press

A region that included parts of present-day northern France, Belgium, and the Netherlands

A German painter; was one of the first northern artists to be profoundly affected by Renaissance Italy; spread Renaissance ideas to northern Europe; sometimes called "Leonardo of the North"

Art form in which an artist etches a design on a metal plate with acid and then uses the plate to make multiple prints

Everyday, modern language of ordinary people

A Dutch priest and humanist; wrote on a number of subjects for the Bible and spread the knowledge to a wider public

A humanist who wrote about an ideal society in which men and women live in peace and harmony in his book Utopia

Idealistic or visionary, usually used to describe a perfect society

An English poet who wrote 37 plays that are still performed around the world; explored and used Renaissance ideals in his writings

Thousands of books were printed in Europe and were cheaper for people to get as knowledge contained within the copies can be widely spread

Realistic details on paintings that portrays people going about their business, religious paintings, and classical paintings

Ideas include humanities and vernacular

A pardon for sins committed during a person's lifetime

A German monk and professor of theology who wrote the 95 theses statement on indulgences

A city in northern Germany, where Luther drew up his 95 theses

Holy Roman emperor who declared Luther an outlaw for not giving up the theses statement

Assembly or legislature

Protestant reformer who shared Luther's beliefs and also preached predestination

An idea that God had long ago determined who would gain salvation

Swiss city-state which became a Calvinist theocracy in the 1500s; today a major city in Switzerland

Government run by religious leaders

The selling of indulgences and the writing up of the 95 theses statement

With Luther's 95 theses statement being copied and distributed throughout northern Europe, people who support Luther's teachings would be called Lutherans

Calvinists (people who support John Calvin) tried to live like saints to show they can be saved when living truly Christian lives, and believed that they're God's chosen people

A subgroup of a major religious group

Catholic king of England; wanted to break away from the Catholic Church