Euro History

Connors

10/01/10

Renaissance Review Sheet

Key Points

  • Why the Renaissance was called a new golden age and period of classical revival by many, including Petrarch
  • Factors shaping Europe pre- and c. 1450
  • The origins of the Renaissance
  • Governmental organization and political trends in the city-states of Italy and throughout Europe during the Renaissance
  • Factors contributing to the rise of nation-states c. 1450-1500
  • The three main intellectual features of the Renaissance
  • The difference between the Italian Renaissance and the Northern Renaissance
  • Christian Humanism and its impact on the Northern Renaissance
  • Key aspects and innovations of Renaissance Art
  • Why the Renaisssance was basically an elitist movement
  • The role of the church and faith during the Renaissance
  • The four types of Humanism: Educational, Civic, Neo-Platonic, and Christian
  • The invention and influence of the printing press (Johannes Gutenberg)

Map Identification:

  • Major city-states of Italy (Florence, Papal States/Romagna, Naples, Milan, Venice, Ferrara)
  • Major nation-states (Holy Roman/German Empire, France, Spain, Portugal, England, Russia, Poland-Lithuania)

Key Artists and Works:

  • All works from art talks
  • Leonardo Da Vinci’s The Last Supper and Mona Lisa
  • Michelangelo’s David and the ceiling of the Sistine Chapel
  • Masaccio, The Trinity
  • Raphael’s School of Athens
  • Botticelli, The Birth of Venus
  • Jan Van Eyck
  • Dürer
  • Bosch
  • Giotto
  • Brunelleschi
  • Bramante
  • Ghiberti
  • The differences and similarities between Northern Renaissance Art and Italian Renaissance Art
  • Patronage and the new status of the artist

Key Political Figures:

  • Niccolo Machiavelli
  • Cesare Borgia
  • Pope Alexander VI
  • Ferdinand and Isabella of Spain ( the Spanish Inquisition)
  • Louis XI
  • Pope Julius II
  • The Medici Family, including Lorenzo de Medici’s Humanist/Platonic Academy

Key Authors and works:

  • Lorenzo da Valla, On the False Donation of Constantine
  • Castiglione,The Courtier
  • Thomas More, Utopia
  • Desiderius Erasmus, The Praise of Folly
  • Pico della Mirandola, On the Dignity of Man
  • Petrarch
  • Ovid

“The Woman Question”: Did women have a Renaissance? How did the view/role of noblewomen change in the Renaissance?

  • Christine de Pizan
  • Joan Kelly-Gadol (Renaissance historian)
  • AP Students should also be familiar withRabelais (Gargantua and Pantagruel), Giovanni Boccaccio (The Decameron), Donatello, Jacob Burckhardt (Renaissance historian), Cervantes (Don Quijote)