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HUMANITIES: Boccaccio
quiz 7 March 18, 2012
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Nursing
Undergraduate 4
03/12/2013

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Term
a hedonistic response to ti castrisotophe of the Black Death, who breaks free of contemporary literary tradition?
Definition
Boccaccio
Term
Boccaccio presents a series of what>
Definition
tales, based upon primary faliaux, the floating popular fiction of the day, comic and tragic bawdy and solemn, satire and serious
Term
What kind of people did Boccaccio's stories have?
Definition
ordinary people
Term
-secondary status
-subordinate to father and husband
-regarded by Church as the "cursed begetters of original sin"
Definition
medieval women
Term
how was the view regarding late medieval women improved?
Definition
-Growing mairolatry
(cult of the Virgin Mary)

- development of courtly love --> Petrarchan love
Term
transformation of sexual desire from a degrading sinful, physical ncessity into a spiritually ennobling emotion and relationship b/w men and women
Definition
courtly love
Term
accepts and affirms the trad role of women as daughters, wives, mothers, ad homemakers, AND argues for greater educational and experience for them.
Definition
Christine de Pizan
Term
the book of Chrstine de Pizan
Definition
La Cite de dames
Term
some of the most important contributions to societ and cultre made by women in the past,
--> giventhat equal opportunity, women who have same same intellectual abilities as men can equal men in accomplishments and achievements
Definition
La Cite de dames by Christine de Pizan
Term
Wrote Cantebury Tales
Definition
Chaucer
Term
most lively and inclusive cross-section of everyday medieval society:
- secular & religious
-notable for power of human observation
-humor and dramatic skills
Definition
Chaucer - canterbury Tales
Term
secures dialect of souterhn England as the literary language of England, PRECURSOR of modern English
Definition
Chaucer
Term
composed simplified, dramatic narratives, peopled by realistically observed, pyschologically expressive figures, in the telling moment of an event
Definition
Giotto
Term
stands at the beginning of the movement in W art to dissolve the picture surface and involve the viewer as an immediate witness to the event or scene, the move fom revremce and worship to ID and empathy
Definition
Giotto
Term
people of the day, called their time the rebirth
Definition
Renaissance
Term
Early modern age
Definition
Renaissance
Term
Itilain dominance of the east-west Mediterranean trade and north-south European ____ trade and _____
Definition
CLOTH and banking

combined with Greco-Roman texts and Islamic advances leads to cultural and economic growth (Florence, Venice, Milan)
Term
a) greater middle-class affluence and influence,

b) merchant and artisan challenge to the aristocracy and Church for political power and cultural control,

c) broadening materialism and

d)increasing awareness of nostalgia for classical past, a less circumscribed world
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Italian Achievement
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T/F
After a thousand years fettered by religious and feudal authoritarianism, people begin to shape an image of human kind and world more positive and hopeful than that offered by medieval Christianity and society
Definition
TRUE
Term
Renaissance produces a richer sense of what it means to be a material, self-determining human being in a material world.
Definition
leap of consciousness
Term
T/F
Rather than being a miserable depraved sinner seeking salvation in a corruptt and wretched world, humanity ...
Definition
increasingly viewed as a potential source of great, even infinite, possibilities, ideally developing towards a balance of physical, moral, intellectual, and creative faculties
Term
a) Essential to the Renaissance, bursts of new art and architecture -

b) the commissions and support of rising, ambitious individuals and families

c) aggressively competing with the patronage of established aristocracy and Church for position, status, and influence in the fluctuating cultural, social, political, and religious atmosphere
Definition
Patronage
Term
classical, secular text, creates a new reading canon not directly connected with the Church or theological concerns
Definition
Secularization and hx

- a more expansive, objective, and critical view of history
Term
an attempt to reconcile the perennial and increasing conflict b/w:
1) classical, Greco Roman values and latitude and

2) Christian values and authority.
Definition
True. Renaissance Tension
Term
establishes dominant form of the sonnet, shaping the Petrarchan love motifs and themes that dominate lyric verse for more than 3 hundred years
Definition
Petrarch
Term
Petraarch's autobiography
Definition
Cannzoniere
Term
called for return to the latin of Rome's golden age
Definition
Petrarch
- leads to a major linguistic rehab of common language of educated
Term
motive sparked by Canzionere (100 poens of lover)
Definition
Petrarchan Love

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Term
broadens and aesthticizes concept of love endtrodcued b =y courtly love.

- oxymorons of emotions, icy fire, loves killing glance
Definition
petarachan Love
Term
Pivotal Renaissance events
Definition
a) development of movable type
(individual block letters for printing)

b) contact with Western hemisphere
1492, Columbus sailed the ocean blue

c) Reformation
Term
Basic tenants of Human Agenda:
Definition
1. Essential "unity of truth"

2. quest for conprehensive knowledge of world

3. fundamental rational, mathematical, harmonic nature of universe

4. Necessary role of free will in shaping the individual

5. human perfectibility
Term
idea or belief that although truth, goodness, and beauty exist perfectly only in the divine Nous or Mind,
humankind can approach the ideals through knowledge, ethics, and art.
Definition
NeoPlatonism
Term
NeoPlatonism
Definition
idea or belief that although
truth, goodness, and beauty
exist perfectly only in the divine Nous or Mind,
humankind can approach
the ideals through knowledge, ethics, and art.
Term
human dignity rather than human degradation and degeneracy is the cornerstone of human nature.
Definition
Pico della Mirandola
Term
According to Pico della Mirandola, Dignity lies in ...
Definition
the potential and free will which God has bestowned on humanity, aspire to highest things.
Term
public lecture and introduction to humanist thought y Pico della Mirandola
Definition
De hominis dignitate oratio

oration on the Dignity of Man
Term
writer, poet, remodles the chivalric concept of education, training and behavior, delinating qualifications for the ideal reaissance
Definition
Castiglione
Term
first shapes the modern conepts of lady and gentleman, which will be fundamental to Western social development
Definition
Castiglione
Term
political philopher, foundern of modern political science
Definition
Machiavelli
Term
one of the most explosive books in history, adviisng rulers and pliticans to saw or do whatever is necessary to OBTAIN and MAINTAIN POWER
Definition
Marchiavelli
Term
For Machiavelli, power is
Definition
to be desired for itself, and politics is the art of expediency
Term
T/F
Reflecting the classical humanist tenor, there is a growing emphasis upon:
- naturalism,
-secular knowledge
-realistic art
Definition
TRUE
Term
The growing emphasis on naturalism, secular knowledge, and realistic art, produces a new commitment to:
Definition
empiricism,
to the systematic observation of natural phenomena and objects.
Term
Realism, naturalism, and empiricism leads to a new
Definition
experimental attitude
--> propels the development of science and engineering
---> discoveries in astronomy, world exploration, and art (linear perspective)
Term
art (linear perspective) is
Definition
a new concept of space.
Term
Florentine Renaissance concepts:
1.
2.
3.
4.
5.
Definition
1. informed humanism (human dignity & self worth)

2. Reaissance individualism (personal free will of ones potential)

3. neoPlatonic idealism
(quest for knowledge, ideal, perfection)

4. scientific naturalism
(observation, experimentation, objectiveness)

5. political realism
(practical, pragmatic, expedient -> POWER)
Term
a technique for representing 3-D objects and depth on a two dimensional surface

-uses converging parallel lines hat intersect in the background to delimit relative size from foreground to background, reducing size of giures and objects in direct ratio to distance from the viewer
Definition
linear perspective
Term
any person of means can memorialize her or his human presence, his or her status, achievement, individuality, personality
Definition
portraiture
Term
mathematical and musical ratios and harmonies.
Definition
cosmic correspondence

*harmonic-mathematical nature of creation
Term
responsible for developing the initial Renaissance style in Florence
Definition
Brunelleschi
Term
architect, sculptor, painter, musician, poet, theologian, philosopher, theorist

-. seminal writings on paintings, architexture, family

-reflect basic paternalistic sexist view of his time
Definition
Alberti
Term
- known for neo-pagan mythological and allegorical works.

The Birth of Venus and La Primavera

adopt the large scale of traditional altera paintings, through pictorial treatments betray private expressive and decorative purposes
Definition
Botticelli
Term
father of modern sculpture

produce free-standing statues, DAVID
Definition
Donatello
Term
produces the FIRST LIFE SIZE NUDE in the round since antiquity, bronze

*a key Reaissance work
Definition
Donatello - David
Term
spends fifty years in production, re-inventingthe lost wax casting method of romans.

* work on doors plays an increasing naturalism, greater use of perspective & idealization, producing terms THE GATES OF PARADISE
Definition
Ghiberti
Term
acute vision and scientific naturalism

focused and searching study of nature and reality

exemplified use of light and shade SFUMATO
Definition
Lenoardo da Vinci
Term
paintings of Leonardo da Vinci
Definition
The Last Supper

Madonna of the Rocks

La Gioconda (Mona Lisa)
Term
has a wide knowledge and understanding far beyond times of many subjects and science, including:
-biology
-astronmy
-physiology
-hydrodynamics
-mechanics
-aeronaturics
Definition
Leonardo da Vinci
Term
sculptor, painter, architext, engineer, poet,

paradigm of expressive and self-willed artist

considered the consummate artist of the High Reanissance
Definition
Michaelangeo
Term
Works of Michaelangelo
Definition
David
Moses
Sistine Chapel
Term
-physical expertise as well as intellectual component,

the ideals og frandeur and submlimity

beauty

raises visual arts to level of poetry, theology, and philosophy
Definition
Michelangelo

*realism in the service of idealism
Term
that through God's illuminating touch, life was given. Even if you just focus on the touch (or untouch, really), it seems that every facet of human emotion and existence is apparent -- love, passion, suffering...
Definition
Creation of Adam - Michelangelo
Term
Works of Michelangelo
Definition
The Last Supper

Sistine Chapel

David

Creation of Man
Term
consummate drafstman, fusing expressiveness with idealization

-paragon of an artistic classicism of invention, vigor, and clarity

*fuses realism and idealism, truthfulness awith idealization of paragon of classicim
Definition
Raphael Sanzio
Term
School of Athens
Definition
raphael sanzio
Term
a series of humanist-inspired and very worldly popes coupled with political instability in Florence, leads to Rome becoming the cultural center of the Italian renaissance during the first half of the 16th century
Definition
Roman Renissance
Term
large scale papal projects as well as the patronage of curial cardinals, churchmen, foreign ambassadors and representitives, produces a flowering of the artistic endeavor which constitutes well into the 17th century
Definition
Papal and ecclesiastical patronage
Term
realism in the service of idealism, the artists of this period produce unexceled, heroic masterpieces.

*foremostly shapes the Western ideal of human body and mind, disciplined physical and intellectual deveopment of mens sana in corpore san
Definition
HIGH renaissance

a sound mind in a sound body
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