Renaissance Reading Guides Vocabulary

Vocabulary flashcards covering key ID terms, major artists, humanists, and concepts from the Renaissance reading guides.

Renaissance

A historical period characterized by art, new ways of thinking, and economic developments.

Commercial Revolution

A key ID term associated with political and economic developments during the Renaissance.

Medici family

A prominent family listed as a key ID term in relation to political and economic developments of the Renaissance.

Balance of power

A key political and economic concept listed in the Renaissance reading guide.

Naturalism

An important artistic ID term reflecting new Renaissance ideals.

Geometric perspective

An artistic technique and ID term used to reflect new Renaissance ideals in art.

Classicism

An artistic and cultural ID term representing new Renaissance ideals.

Michelangelo

A major Renaissance artist featured as a key ID term in the reading guide on Renaissance art.

Raphael

A major Renaissance artist listed as an important ID term.

Leonardo da Vinci

A major Renaissance artist and figure listed as an ID term.

Filippo Brunelleschi

A key Renaissance figure listed as an ID term in the reading guide on art.

Jan Van Eyck

A Renaissance artist listed as an ID term in the art reading guide.

Pieter Bruegel the Elder

A Renaissance artist listed as an important ID term.

Patronage

A key factor and ID term explaining why so much art was produced in Italy during the Renaissance.

humanism

A major feature and new intellectual movement of the Italian Renaissance involving central ideas and specific work by Renaissance humanists.

virtù

A key term and idea associated with Italian Renaissance humanism and thought.

Francesco Petrarch

An Italian Renaissance humanist listed as an ID term.

Niccolo Machiavelli

An Italian Renaissance figure and thinker listed as a key ID term.

Baldassare Castiglione

An Italian Renaissance humanist writer listed as an ID term.

Vernacular

A key term related to language and literature associated with new Renaissance ideas.

Pico della Mirandola

An Italian Renaissance humanist listed as a key ID term.

Desiderius Erasmus

A Renaissance humanist listed as an important ID term.