EUrO-Chapter 14
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- Mannerism
- A style in late 16th-century Italian art, reflecting the stresses of the age, that evoked shock in the viewer.
- Botticelli
- Florentine artist with a sensitive style that emphasized line, well exemplified in his BIRTH of VENUS.
- Titian
- 16th-century Venetian painter noted for his robust sensuousness, color, and light; his reputation among his contemporaries was based largely on his portraits.
- Ghiberti
- Sculptor who created bronze doors for the baptistery in Florence that one observer claimed were "worthy to be the gates of paradise."
- Francesco Petrarca (Petrarch)
- "Father of humanism" and a transitional figure between the Renaissance and the Middle Ages.
- Lorenzo the Magnificent
- Member of the Medici family who ruled Florence from 1469 to 1492; a major patron of arts.
- Giovanni Boccaccio
- Important early humanist and author of the DECAMERON.
- Benvenuto Cellini
- The autobiography of this 16th-century artist and adventurer give us insights into Renaissance manners and morals.
- Humanism
- Itellectual movement, beginning in 14th-century Italy, which stressed classical learning and individualism.
- Quattrocento
- Italian term for the 14th century, often used to designate a leading Renaissance era.
- The Black Death
- Disaster that formed the backdrop for the stories of the DECAMERON.
- Plato and Aristotle
- Two ancient Greek philosophers who wielded a great deal of influence during the Renaissance.
- Josquin des Près
- "Founder of High Renaissance music," this composer created symmetrical musical forms based on correct mathermatical proportions.
- Michelangelo Buonarroti
- Most illustrious Renaissance sculptor, also a painter (the Sistine Chapel) and architect (St. Peter's dome).
- Donatello
- Florentine sculptor of the early Renaissance who abandoned Gothic sculpture in favor of classical models; famous for his equestrian stature of Gattamelata.
- Leonardo da Vinci
- Genius of many talents, famoud primarily as the painter of such masterpieces as THE LAST SUPPER and the MONA LISA, notable also as a student of physics, anatomy, and other sciences.