Glossary

Unit 6

The Renaissance and the Reformation

HUMANISM

• It was an intellectual movement based on the anthropocentism.

• Nothing was more valuable than human beliefs.

RENAISSANCE

• French word from “Rebirth”.

• The Renaissance was the cultural period that started in Italy in the 15th century and spread throughout Europe till the 17th century.

• It was mainly based on human values and in the classical cultures of Greece an Rome.

Renaissance

PERSPECTIVE

• It is a technique of depicting volumes and

 spatial relationships on a flatsurface.

• It was thoroughly develop during the Renaissance Period.

 

Perspective

• aerial perspective • linear perspective.

Brunelleschi and the rediscovery of perspective

REFORMATION

• It was a new doctrine based on the ideas that Martin Luther, an agustinian monk, develop in his Ninety-Five Thesis (1517). They were basically focus on against clerical abuses.

REFORMATION

Other kinds of Reformation

• The CALVINISM

John Calvin

• The ANGLICANISM

Henry VIII

The Religious Divisions of Europe

PRINTING PRESS

• The printing press was a device for evenly printing ink onto a print medium (substrate) such as paper or cloth.

• Typically used for texts, the invention and spread of the printing press is considered one of the most influential events in human history.

The Printing Press