01:510:201 Study Guide - Final Guide: Pietas, Michael Servetus, Andreas Vesalius

• School: Rutgers University
• Department: European History Courses
• Course: 01:510:201
• Professor: K R I S T I N P I N Y A N

Document Summary

Ids: leonardo da vinci (14 th -16 th c) divine painter during the italian renaissance. Mona lisa combined all characteristic elements of renaissance painting. Copernicus (16 th c) created the heliocentric theory of universe. Developed that the earth moved around the sun. His writing reflects renaissance confidence in human abilities: martin luther (15 th -16 th c) monk and theology professor who created protestant. Believed only the bible was a source of information, rejected church tradition and sacraments. Rejected ecclesiastical hierarchy (priesthood) and clerical abuses (1519-20) and was supported by germans who did not like the pope: justification by faith (16 th c) part of luther"s ideas of the protestant reformation. Believed that prayers of friends, family, monks and nuns could not grant an individual salvation, only by faith and god"s mercy: moveable type (15 th c) - invented by johannes gutenberg. Was used by luther as his propaganda machine, writing was in german.