Study Guide Final Early Modern Europe

Eric Snow, instructor

Renaissance, Mannerist, and Baroque Art (pp. 275-291, 306-320, 332-348, 358-364, 371-375, 392-396, 398-401):

Brunelleschi

Masaccio

Donatello

Botticelli

Leonardo da Vinci

Michelangelo

Raphael

Titian

Van Eyck

Albert Durer

Bosch

Bruegel the Elder

El Greco

Palladio

Caravaggio

Rubens

Rembrandt

The Scientific Revolution (pp. 413-420):

Copernicus

Kepler

Galileo

Newton

Harvey

Early Modern and Enlightenment Philosophy (pp. 421-427, 436-439):

Descartes

“I think, therefore I am”

Locke

Two Treatises on Government

Voltaire

Deism

Hume

Kant

The Protestant Reformation (pp. 364-371):

Luther

Calvin

Anglicanism

Counter-Reformation

Section 3: Essay question. Choose one of the following two questions to answer. A proper answer will have full essay form, including an introduction, a thesis statement, two or more body paragraphs that explain/defend the thesis, and a conclusion in the last paragraph that restates the thesis. Put the number of the question you're answering at the beginning of what you write. (50 possible points)

1. What innovations and developments made Renaissance painting and sculpture different from most Medieval or Gothic art? What characteristics tended to distinguish Dutch/Northern European art from Italian art? Mention specific innovations, art works, and artists to illustrate your points. (Note in text esp. pp. 283-291, 306-319, 332-348)

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2. What was the scientific revolution? What beliefs, both religious and philosophical, helped to create it? What were the major discoveries in physics and astronomy that launched it? Name specific scientists, beliefs, and discoveries in your answer. (Note in text esp. pp. 413-423).