Renaissance to Baroque (FINAL STUDY)

Terze Rime

Victoria Franco, courtesan, wrote this collection of verses which is full of double entendre.

Groundlings

In the theaters in England, these stood in the open area directly in front of the stage.

Conversos

Spanish Jews who converted to Christianity.

Camera Picta

Painted illusionistic ceiling by Andrea Mantegna in the Ducal Palace, Mantua.

Baldacchino

Bernini's canopy that is in St. Peter's Basilica.

The Prince

Machiavelli wrote this about the ideal leader.

Ninety-Five Theses

Martin Luther posted this on October 31, 1517, launching the Protestant Reformation.

Utopia

Name of work that Thomas More wrote.

Tintoretto

Changed his Last Supper painting to appease the Inquisition.

Orfeo

First modern opera by Monteverdi.

Ignudi

Nude male figures painted by Michelangelo on the Sistine Chapel ceiling.

The Globe Theatre

Name of theater where Shakespeare's troupe performed.

Laura Cereta

Wrote Defense of Liberal Instruction for Women.

Michelangelo

Completed many works for the Catholic Church, including the Sistine Chapel.

Predestination

Calvin held this belief that God has already decided before birth if someone goes to heaven.

Martin Luther

Encouraged the failed Peasant Wars.

St. Peter's Basilica

Major basilica in Vatican City, centerpiece of Catholicism.

Transubstantiation

The belief that during communion the wine and bread become literal body and blood of Christ.

Lucrezia Marinella

Responded to Castiglione's critique of women through The Nobility and Excellence of Women.

The Inquisition

The Catholic Church began this in order to root out heretics. The most famous is Spanish.

Indulgences

These were sold to lessen time in purgatory.

Triptych

A three-paneled painting.

Sistine Chapel

Vatican chapel with ceiling painted by Michelangelo.

Lorenzo de' Medici

Wrote The Rose Blossoms for the consecration of the Duomo.

Parmigianino

Painted The Madonna with the Long Neck.

Johannes Gutenberg

Printed the Forty-Two Line Bible on his printing press.

Henry VIII

English monarch who broke from the Catholic Church over divorce.

Huldrych Zwingli

Established a Protestant church in Zurich around the time of Luther.

El Greco

Spanish artist who painted Resurrection.

Satire

The genre of writing that Erasmus is famous for.

Bruges

Was initially the center of trade in the North until silt filled its canals.

Philip II of Spain

Tried to defeat the English navy to avenge the death of Mary, Queen of Scots.

Tenebrism

Use of large areas of darkness contrasted by small areas of light in Baroque painting.

Reformation

The time period when Protestant churches arose in opposition to the Catholic Church.

William Tyndale

Translated the Bible into English.

Vanitas

Type of painting that were secular, everyday things, but remind us that pleasure fades.

Merchants

These were the primary patrons of art in Northern Europe.

Miguel de Cervantes

Wrote Don Quixote.

Wittenberg

Where Martin Luther nailed his work and the city he had his German Bible printed.

Medici

Pope Leo X and Pope Clement VII were members of this family.