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Chapter 17: European Renaissance
1300 – 1600
Reading Guide Part I
Section 1: Italy: Birthplace of the Renaissance
1. How did the Middle Ages set the stage for the Renaissance?
Italy’s advantages
2. Define renaissance.
-why is individualism important in Renaissance time?
City States
3. How did cities help to spur the Renaissance?
- How did the plague help to spur it?
Merchants and Medici
4. How did the Medici family gain so much power in Italy?
Looking to Greece and Rome
Classical and Worldly Values
5. What is humanism ? (use glossary)
What are the subjects studied in humanities?
Worldly Pleasures
6. What is the impact of the Renaissance mentality of the change from piety to worldly or secular
attitudes?
Patrons of the Arts
7. What primary role did patrons play in supporting the arts?
Renaissance Man
8. At what must a man excel to be considered a Renaissance Man?
Renaissance Women
9. How did the expectations differ for women?
The Renaissance Revolutionizes Art
Realistic Painting and Sculpture
10. Describe Donatello’s “David”?
11. In your own words, describe perspective:
Leonardo, Renaissance Man
12. What made da Vinci a true Renaissance Man?
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What are his two most famous works of art?
13. Who was Michelangelo and what was he famous for?
Raphael Advances Realism
Anguissola and Gentileschi
Renaissance Writers Change Literature
14. What is vernacular?
Petrarch and Boccaccio
15. Who was Petrach and what did he write?
16. Who was Boccaccio and what did he write?
Machiavelli Advises Rulers
17. What is Machiavelli's’ most famous work?
Draw a quick example of how perspective works: