Modern History People

Perspective

Perspective

a form of 3-D art

Jesuit

Society of Jesus

Vernacular

native toungue

Utopia

a perfect place, nothing bad and stuff

Counter-Reformation

Catholic church wanted to regain strength/prestiege and keep protestantism under control

Aglican

The church King Henry 8th made after breaking from the Catholic church because they refused to let him get a divorce

Humanism

focused on man & his accomplishments

Renaissance

“rebirth” or “born again” - after the Middle Ages

Patron

people who supported artist with money, getting the artists to come to their countries

Reformation

Caused by problems in the Catholic church and secular ideas

1300-1600

renaissance

1455

Gutenberg’s printing press

1492

Columbus sailed the Ocean blue

1545

Council of Trent

1588

Defeat of the Spanish Armada

Leonardo Da Vinci

“The Renaissance Man”/”Man Ahead of his Time” - Mona Lisa/Last Supper/Inventions

Michelangelo

Moody - statue of David - Sistine Chapel ceiling - Pieta

Raphael

School of Athens - died very young

Donatello

Free-standing/realistic statue of David (1st of Big 4, lesser known)

Giotto

Trailblazer for lifelike figures - frescoe

Masaccio

Perfected perspective art (3-D)

Dante

Wrote the “Divine Comedy” (politics and religion)

Machiavelli

Wrote “the Prince” (questionable politics)

Prince Henry

Financed many voyages for Portugal (couldn’t go on any)

Dias

First to discover actual size of Africa (returned home-mutiny)

Vasco da Gama

Made voyage around Africa to India - instant hero/millionare

Columbus

Credited with discovering America; 4 voyages

Vespucci

Americas named after him; first to realize new continents

Magellan

credited with the first voyage around the world (died before completion)

Drake

first englishman to sail around the world

Cartier

St. Lawrence River, Montreal

Champlain

Lake Champlain; Quebec

Cabot

Discovered Newfoundland (fish); first claim by England

Hudson

Bay, River, Straight named after him; mutiny - death?

Marquette/Joliet

Explored the Mississippi river

Albrecht Durer

German - woodcuts

Hans Holbein

German - portraits

Jan van Eyck

Flemish - oil painting

Peter Breugel

Flemish - peasant everyday life

Erasmus

Holland - praise of folly

More

England - Utopia

Rabelais

France - Gargantua & Pantagruel

Shakespeare

England - many works - large vocab - human nature