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Renaissance Terms
The Renaissance - Important Terms
modern
Europe
history
Masaccio, Trinity (1427)
Giovanni Boccaccio, The Decameron
Michelangelo Buonarroti, Sistine Chapel (1508-1512), St. Peter's Basilica, David (1501-1504)
Baldassare Castiglione, The Book of the Courtier (1528)
Leonardo Da Vinci, The Last Supper (1498)
Miguel de Cervantes
Lorenzo de Medici
Pico della Mirandola, Oration on the Dignity of Man
Donatello
Erasmus, In Praise of Folly
Jacob Fugger
Isabella d'Este
Pope Julis II
Pope Leo X
Niccolo Machiavelli, The Prince (1513)
Sir Thomas More, Utopia (1516)
Petrarch
"Renaissance Man"
Raphael Santi, School of Athens (1508)
Lorenzo Valla
Giorgio Vasari
Johannes Gutenberg
printing press
Albrecht Durer
William Shakespeare, Hamlet
Mel Gibson
Elizabeth I
Pieter Bruegel
Francois Rabelais, Gargantua and Pantagruel
1453, Constantinople falls to the Turks individualism
Florence rationalism
republic secularism
city-state classicism
perspective skepticism
chiaroscuro naturalism
representationalism humanism
antiquity
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