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Renaissance
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cultural movement that started in Florence and spread throughout Europe
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Guelf and Ghibelline factions
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Supported pope and Holy Roman Empire,
after the investiture conflict was over the two stayed separate
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The Medicis
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political dynasty
banking family & later royal house, under Cosimo de' Medici
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Condottieri
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mercenary soldier of the professional military
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Humanism
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activity of cultural and educational reform engaged by scholars, writers, and civic leaders who are today known as humanists
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Petrach
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italian scholar, poet and one of the earliest renaissance humanists.
often called the Father of Humanism
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Dante
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considered the finest poet of the Middle Ages and is best known for his epic La Divina Commedia
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Boccaccio
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Author and poet
friend, student, and correspondent of Petrarch
an important renaissance humanist and the author of a number of a notable works including the Decameron, On Famous Women
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Costiglione
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Courtier
Diplomat
soldier
a prominent renaissance author
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Platonic Academy
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founded by Plato in 387 BC
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Ficino
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one of the most influential humanist philosophers at his Florentine academy
attempted to revive Platos's school
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Pico dell Mirandola
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proposed to defend 900 thesis' on religion, philosophy, natural philosophy and magic against all comers; for which he wrote the famous Oration on the Dignity of Man
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Valla
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in 1431 he entered the priesthood
after trying in vain to secure a posistion as apostolic secretary
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Chiaroscuro
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art is characterized by strong contrasts between light and dark, usually bold contrasts affecting a whole composition
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Linear perspective
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approximate representation, on a flat surface, smaller as their deistance from relatively shorter than dimensions across the line of sight
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Giotto
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Italian painter and architect from Florence considered the first in a line of great artist who contributed to the Italian Renaissance
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Masaccio
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first great painter of the Quattrocento period of the Italian renaissance recreating life like figures and movements as well as convincing sense of three dimensionality
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Donatello
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known for his work is bas-relief, a from of shallow relief sculpture perspectival illusionism
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Leonardo da Vinci
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descreibed as the archetype of the renaissance man, considered to be one of the greatest painters of all time and perhaps the most diversely talented person ever to have lived
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Raphael
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perfection and grace of his paintings and drawings, enormously productive, running unusually large workshop, and despite his death at thirty-seven, a large body of his work remains
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Michelangelo
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best documented artist of the 16th century
the Pieta and David
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