World History Ch. 15

In The Prince, Machiavelli argues that

The war between France and Spain for control of Italy reached a turning point when

Venice became an important state because it

The development of printing using movable type enabled people to

High Renaissance master painters such as __, __, & __ captured the perfection of nature & the individual in their art.

In Renaissance Italy, most people lived in

Nobility also needed to have a ____ and interest in the arts.

Local spoken language.

Leonardo da Vinci was a good example of Renaissance Italy's social ideal because he

The main goal of a humanistic education was to

Painting done on fresh wet plaster with water-based paints.

Members of the ___ in Renaissance society were wealthy from trade, industry, & banking & dominated in their communities.

The __ worked as shopkeepers, artisans, guild masters, & guild members & they lived difficult lives earning low wages.

The Renaissance Society, like society in the Middle Ages, was divided into 3 social classes: ___, ___, and ____.

German printer who developed moveable type.

Liberal studies were at the core of humanist schools as humanist educators aimed to create complete __, __, and ___.

Milan, Venice, Florence, Rome & Naples became wealthy because of their locations on major trade routes.

Renaissance artists developed a worldview that placed ___ at the center.

Members of the __were expected to have character, grace, talent, to be warriors, and to follow a certain standard of __.

States were able to function independently because

State that was the cultural center of Italy.

State in southern Italy ruled by a hereditary monarch.

The main way in which the works of Northern European Renaissance artists differed from those of Italian artists was in

A form of government in which the leader is not a monarch and certain citizens have the right to vote.

Renaissance artists used techniques in painting & sculpture to imitate nature, especially the human form, in their art.

A member of the middle class.

Invention of the__contributed to a rise in literacy. The printing of _ encouraged the public's desire to gain knowledge.

___ included a mastering of the laws of perspective, which gave human figures a depth previously unseen.

Intellectual movement based on the study of the literature of ancient Greece and Rome.

Author of an influential treatise on political power.

Petrarch is considered the father of Italian Renaissance humanism because he

Flemish painter who perfected the technique of oil painting.