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Notes for Spring Quiz 10 (Day 1)
Ch 13 Lesson 2
A. Vocabulary (Chapter 13, Lesson 2)
(Remember: write definitions in your own
words and learn to spell them.)
1. movement (435) –
5. technique (437) –
2. masterpiece (437) –
6. literary (439) –
3. realism (437) –
7. sonnets (440) –
4. portray (437) –
B. Birthplace of the Renaissance
1. began in the cities of northern Italy.
a. Why?
C. What was the Renaissance?
1. movement of great creativity in
art (painting), writing, architecture,
mathematics, science, technology
a. word means rebirth (revival)
1) revival of learning about
classical (Greek and Roman)
ideas and achievements
2. time period (1300 – 1600 A.D.)
D. Examples of Advances
1. painting technique called
“perspective.” (See page 437.)
a. painters showed things in a
a three-dimensional way
(more realistic; page 436)
1) Before this change, Medieval
paintings looked two-dimensional
(appearing flat like the paintings
in ancient Egypt)
3. happened with growth of cities
and more attention to human
achievement (humanism)
1) once the center of the Roman Empire
and classical ideas.
2) Trade routes went through it.
a) Cities like Florence, Venice, Milan
developed and became main places
to exchange goods and ideas.
b. Florence
1) by the Arno River
2) Artists lived and worked here.
3) wealthy merchants became city leaders
and bankers who became patrons
(financial supporters of artists).
A) example was a banking family
called Medici who ruled the
city of Florence
for question (Q) Column
Why was Florence important to the growth
of the Renaissance movement?
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Notes for Spring Quiz 10 (Day 2)
Ch 13 Lesson 2
D. Figures and their Achievements
F. Renaissance Life
5. Dante
1. Leonardo da Vinci
a. writer: poet
a. artist: painter
1) The Divine Comedy
1) The Last Supper; Mona Lisa
2) wrote in his vernacular (Italian)
not the language of scholars (Latin)
b. also excelled in science (astronomy,
geometry, anatomy)
6. Cervantes
1) da Vinci example of a
“Renaissance Man” or someone
who excels in many activities.
a. Spanish writer of novels
1) Don Quixote
a) Goal is to become well-rounded;
to master various subjects.
7. Machiavelli
a. writer
2. Michelangelo
1) The Prince
a. artist: painter
1) painted the ceiling of the Sistine
Chapel in the city of Rome for the
Catholic Church.
b. artist: sculptor
E. Renaissance Poetry
1. wealthy people (now called upper class)
had time to study and appreciate classics
(Greek and Roman works).
a. nobles and wealthy merchants
b. Most wealthy women stayed at home
as overseers of children’s education
and overseers of servants.
2. Most people did not benefit from
Renaissance ideas and advances.
(Benefits would come to later generations.)
a. without formal education
b. the poor
c. tradespeople
d. merchants without a lot of wealth.
1. sonnet – a poem of 14 lines
(recall the haiku of Japan’s
golden age.)
1) statues of Moses and David
3. Raphael
a. artist: painter
1) The School of Athens
4. Brunelleschi
a. architect (engineering):
1) designed and built large church domes.
a) created techniques to raise construction
materials onto structures (hoists).
a. the pattern
- the problem: first eight lines
of words
- the resolution (solution): last six
lines of
words
a. Petrarch and Michelangelo
were examples of Renaissance
sonnet writers.
for question (Q) Column
How does the definition of humanism relate
to Renaissance figures?