Renaissance Flashcards

• Developed humanism
• Focused on human life no religion
• Success of the individual
• Any ideas to help one’s life were good
• Ancient greek and roman text were good to use as resources to solve life's problems science, Ethics, politics
• Improvements of architecture,literature,and the arts

Who started it: Petrarchand Giovanni Boccaccio

Came from Italy

How did they start it: they found old copies of the classic works

Traveled on trade routes and cities to find ancient text

What was it: humanism was used to improve people lives

They get an education

Everyone else starts to do more

Muslim Empire:

• They were strongly influenced by Greek philosophy, especially the ideas of Aristotle
• Muslims made many significant and cultural advances
• Through Muslim traders
• Used this knowledge to make advances in arts and learning
• Made up of city-states
• Each city controlled their own trade and government
• Muslims gave them math, science, medicine

• The ideas stated to spread beyond Italy and in to other areas of Europe
• Merchants,diplomats and scholars visited Italy and learned about physiology and humanism and saw great art
• They brought back the new ideas and learning
• Started to influence other cultures nations
• Soldiers attacked Italy but were amazed of what they found, told people what they found
• Leaders in France brought humanist and great artist to France (patrons)

• Advances in technology led more people to know about the renaissance
• Johannes Gutenberg invented a printing press and increased the spread of books
• Then spread humanism books
• Eventually there was a development there own type of humanism called Christian humanism
• Contact between nations helped the influence
• increased the number of book so less money (poor could read)
• Develop their own type of humanism

• The ideas of humanism spread to the science
• They applied humanism to there work
• Asking questions
• Making observations
• And drawing conclusion based on reason
• Thinker were influenced by the humanists and ideas of the past

Main goal :go back and look at classical greek and roman ideas and prove them wrong

• Greatly influenced art, culture and science
• Greek rationalism to help them observe and study the world around them
• Humanist and Greek set a foundation for the studies
• The foundation encouraged thinkers to think differently

• Encouraged the thinkers to observe the universe around them and draw a new conclusion about the natural world
• How it worked rather than accept the commonly held assumptions or religions doctrine as the only possible answers
• Thinkers of the science revolution had to go against what the Greek first thought was correct

• Very powerful and influential throughout Europe
• The bible and church doctrine were the authorities on how the universe was formed
• Biblical passages were taken as proof of any scientific ideas
• Any theories that went against that church's teachings were considered a departure from the truth and not accepted

• Went against the common belief of the geocentric theory and came up with the heliocentric theory
• Started that the sun is the center of the universe not the earth and the planets rotate around it
• Church accepted his theory but placed Copernicus's book on the banned list
• Out of sight out of mind

• Defended Copernicus heliocentric theory
• Made improvements to Copernicus theory as well
• Used mathematics to prove Copernicus
• Added that the planets orbit were elliptical not circular
• Came up with the laws of planetary motion
• Law of ellipse
• Law of equal area
• Law of harmonies

• Advanced the ideas of the telescope used his telescope and discovered
• Observed the surface of the moon not smooth but had terrain
• Sunspots of the sun
• Observed the moons of Jupiter
• Used his telescope to prove Copernicus theory angered the catholic church
• Was put on trial by the church and sentenced to house arrest until he died

• Studied the motion of objects produced the 3 laws of motion
• Supported Copernicus theory helped explain why objects stayed in nothing like the planets around the sun
• Like the other thinkers of this time newton seed experiment observation and reasoning to understand the world around him scientific method

The prince - still used as a “handbook” for politician

The Virgin of the rocks, the last supper Mona Lisa - accurate sketches of human body, his designs lead the way for future design

The Holy Family, ceiling of the Sistine Chapel. Pita and David - Famous for his realistic depiction of the humans

Paintings of Madonna's, Jesus's mother, School of Athens and transfiguration - powerful, collaborative church paintings and storytelling within his paintings

Mystic Lamb, Arnolfini Portraits - Used Oil paint and crafts smaller more intimate realism

Macbeth, Hamlet, Romeo and Juliet, A Midsummer night's dream, Twelfth night - Plays are still used today and books are based on his themes