AP Euro -- Renaissance Unit

“the rebirth” of classical culture that occurred in Italy between ca. 1350 and ca. 1550; had a heavy focus on humanism, classical antiquity, and individualism with it affecting culture, economics, and politics.

An industry that majorly recovered after the Black Death and allowed for economic prosperity in Florence, leading to Florence being the capital of the Italian Renaissance

A Florentine banking family who was heavily involved in papal, political, and artistic affairs during the Renaissance; funded many famous artists.

The hierarchical structure of Renaissance society where the First Estate was the clergy, the Second Estate was the nobility, and the Third Estate of urban workers and peasants

Writer of the “Book of the Courtier” that defined the classical humanist education of many noblemen and their manners.

Amount of money presented by a wife’s family to the husband upon marriage, usually showed societal status in the amount given.

Monarchies that developed highly centralized states by curtailing the power of aristocrats and were highly territorial powers. Examples include Sforza, Henry VII following the Tudor Wars, Louis XI, and the unification of Spain.

Writer of “The Prince”, whose work defined what a realistic monarch looked like with their main motivation to serve their country honestly with no biases. Became the doctrine of politiques like Elizabeth I and Henry IV of France.

an intellectual movement in Renaissance Italy based on the study of the Greek and Roman classics with a focus on human life.

“Founder” of Humanism whose works on Cicero reintroduced classical Roman and Greek texts to the Italian Renaissance.

an intellectual movement of the Italian Renaissance that saw Cicero, who was both an intellectual and a statesman, as the ideal and held that humanists should be involved in government and use their rhetorical training in the service of the state.

a revival of Platonic philosophy in the third century ca.e., associated with Plotinus; a similar revival in the Italian Renaissance, associated with Marsilio Ficino, who attempted to synthesize Christianity and Platonism.

an intellectual movement beginning in the fifteenth century that taught that divinity is embodied in all aspects of nature; included works on alchemy and magic as well as theology and philosophy. The tradition continued into the seventeenth century and influenced many of the leading figures of the Scientific Revolution.

A new style of painting coined by the use of classical figures, realism, and laws of perspective and anatomy. Shown especially by Masaccio and Botticelli.

Famous Renaissance artist whose use of perspective, realistic figures, idealism in antiquity, and individualism captures Renaissance style.

Renaissance art in Northern Europe that focused specifically on detail-work, oil, observation, altarpieces, and secular daily life with the rising middle-class. Shown especially in Durer and Van Eyck.

Appointment of family members to important political positions, usually seen in Renaissance popes

Popes that increasingly saw backlash from acting improperly, using nepotism, and having extravagant spendings from papal earnings.