Glosario de la unidad Renaissance and the Reformation.

1. Glossary
Unit 6
The Renaissance and the
Reformation

2. HUMANISM
• It was an intellectual movement based on
the anthropocentism.
• Nothing was more valuable than human
beliefs.

4. 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.

5. Renaissance

6. PERSPECTIVE
• It is a technique of depicting volumes and
spatial relationships on a flatsurface.
• It was thoroughly develop during the
Renaissance Period.

7. Perspective
• aerial perspective • linear perspective.

8. Brunelleschi and the rediscovery of
perspective

9. 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.

10. REFORMATION

11. Other kinds of Reformation
• The CALVINISM
John Calvin
• The ANGLICANISM
Henry VIII

12. The Religious Divisions of Europe

13. 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.

14. The Printing Press