Unit 1 AP Euro Review FULL

notes from hielmer's history videos

petrarch

• father of the renaissance

• created humanism

lorenzo valla

• looked at the difference between Latin texts

• questioning the authority of the church documents

secularism

when you dont focus of religous aspect of life

individulism

belif that emphazized the triumph of a individual compared to a community

what helped spread ideas of beliefs like individualism, secularism and humanism?

printing press by Johannes gutenberg

humanism

ideas that humans have unlimited potential —> thru education

civic hummansm

humanism but put towards political matters/ideas

leonardo bruni

wrote a new cicero and said that “smart” man was bound to use his knowledge toward the state

machiavelli

• wrote the prince

• ruler needs to preserve power at all costs

• human are selfish

• ruler needs to be brutal

renaissance art

• religious themes

• naturalism, portrayed world as it was

• geometric perspective, Jesus in the last supper, (showcase depth)

• michalangelo —> sculpture

• raphael—> school of athens

christian humanism - northern renaissance

• a movement that sought to reform Christianity through classical learning and moral improvement.

• def: humans can reach that idea of great potential thru things like reading the bible and getting a good education, they can then get efforts to reform in society

• Prominent figures included Erasmus and Thomas More, who emphasized a return to the original sources of Christianity and humanist values.

erasmus

• wrote the “praise of folly”

• criticized the churches corrupt hierarchy

• revival of chritinanty thru the idea of “phioloshy of Christ”

rembrandt

• artist during the dutch renaissance

• painted the “slaughtered ox” → showcases ORDINARY LIFE!!

northern renaissance art

it was MORE human centered and CHRISTIAN centered