Jeff Scudder
World HIstory Honors
Chapter 15 SR PG. 354
Answer all of the questions.

1. The city of Florence during the rennaissance was the center for the arts. Espically for painters and sculptors.

2a. Florence was ruled politically by a powerful family called the Medici. Florence had 8 people on a board, who decided the rules for the city. But at one point Cosimo was basically the dictator because he controlled the city council.

b. He ruled for so long by making sure that all 8 members of the city council were loyal to him. This way he could be a dictator, but behind the scenes. So nobody really knew he had total power and he could sway the government whichever way he wanted.

3a. Donatello wanted to be able to make free standing statues like the greeks and romans, and he dispised other cultures statures. He also wanted to show the human form in it's strength and grace.

b. He accomplished this by working in a workshop and making several famous statues of men and men on horseback.

4. Massacio was the first painter to develop the painting and drawing technique of perspective. Perspective is how things get smaller as they are farther away. He was able to set rules and guidelines for drawing this.

5a. Machiovelli believed that all men were evil, and only wanted money and power, and would do anything to get it.

b. Machiovelli gave advice saying that you had to be evil and ruthless in order to be a good ruler. "Nice guys come in last."

6. The city-states were threatened from war and political upheavals.

7. In Florence, the arts flourished. Because people could now pay for their food with their artwork, they could spend more time on a career they loved, instead of always making food for themselves. People began to believe in themselves and take pride in what they did. They signed their names on their artwork because hey held pride in what the accomplished. The renaissance sparked this idea of individualism further than it had ever been.