Geography
This country is home to architecture including the Louvre and the Chartreuse de Champmol.
What is France?
This war between France and England lasted from 1337-1453.
What is the Hundred Years’ War?
This Da Vinci masterpiece is seen as one of the most famous paintings in the world.
What is the Mona Lisa?
This church held power throughout Europe until the Reformation.
What is the Roman Catholic Church?
The analysis of the historical context of art.
What is Art History?
This country is home to Martin Luther and is the birthplace of the Reformation.
What is the Holy Roman Empire?
This movement began when Martin Luther nailed his Ninety-Five Theses on the door of a Catholic church.
What is the Reformation?
This Renaissance sculptor created the Pieta, David, and Moses.
Who is Michelangelo?
This movement was the Catholic response to the Reformation.
What is the Counter-Reformation?
This practice is the identification, description, and interpretation of the importance of subjects, people, and symbols in art.
What is iconography?
This country is home to artwork including View of Toledo and Burial of Count Orgaz.
What is Spain?
During the Renaissance, this branch of thought advocated for human knowledge, learning, and capability.
What is humanism?
During the High Renaissance, artists began utilizing orthogonals to create this art style.
What is Linear Perspective?
This movement began because Protestant belief stated that artwork was a distraction for Church worship.
What is iconoclasm?
This Italian term means “to play with light and dark.”
What is Chiaroscuro?
This Italian city played the most important role in the development of Renaissance ideas and art forms in the early 15th century.
What is Florence?
During the Renaissance, rulers began to show their power and prominence through art leading to this shared sentiment of pride in one’s country.
What is nationalism?
This style of art adds highlights by printing two separate engravings.
What is a chiaroscuro woodcut?
This protestant core belief states that one only has to have faith in order to be saved.
What is Pro Fide or salvation by faith alone?
This art style exaggerates human proportions, and is named after the importance of the artist’s hand in a piece of art.
What is mannerism?
This country encompasses present day Luxembourg, Holland, and Belgium.
What is the Netherlands?
Spain rose to prominence throughout the Renaissance due to their vast colonial holdings and global commerce. These explorers helped Spain grow their empire.
Who are Christopher Columbus, Hernan Cortes, Vasco Nunez de Balboa, Francisco Pizarro, and Ferdinand Magellan?
This fountain did not actually have water running in it because of the Carthusian monks’ dedication to silence.
What is the Well of Moses at the Chartreuse de Champmol?
The belief in transubstantiation, or the presence of Christ in the Eucharist was upheld during this meeting during the Counter Reformation.
What is the Council of Trent?
When an artist includes a likeness of the patron in their artwork, it is said to be this.
What is a donor portrait?