Renaissance Terms
The Renaissance - Important Terms

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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
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