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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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political dynasty
banking family & later royal house, under Cosimo de' Medici |
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| mercenary soldier of the professional military |
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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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italian scholar, poet and one of the earliest renaissance humanists.
often called the Father of Humanism |
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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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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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Courtier
Diplomat
soldier
a prominent renaissance author |
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| founded by Plato in 387 BC |
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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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| 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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in 1431 he entered the priesthood
after trying in vain to secure a posistion as apostolic secretary |
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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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| approximate representation, on a flat surface, smaller as their deistance from relatively shorter than dimensions across the line of sight |
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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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| 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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| known for his work is bas-relief, a from of shallow relief sculpture perspectival illusionism |
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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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| 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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best documented artist of the 16th century
the Pieta and David |
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