Divided Italy, Noble Patrons and Rulers, Growing Wealth in Italy, Influence of the Classical Period, The Fall of Constantinople, and the Power of the Popes.
What were the main causes of the Renaissance?
100
He was a famous artist who painted the Sistine Chapel and sculpted a statue of David.
Who is Michelangelo?
100
Rounded arches and classical columns.
What are two features of Renaissance architecture?
100
The route that Marco Polo travelled on to China and back.
What is the Silk Road?
200
In Europe as a whole, it occurred from the 14th to the 17th century.
When was the Renaissance?
200
It is a city-state that was built on piles which were stuck in the marshy lands below. This city with its network of canals grew as a one-of-a-kind remarkable city of 150,000 people during the Renaissance.
What is Venice?
200
An artistic term used to describe how artists show depth by making objects in front larger and objects in the background smaller.
What is perspective?
200
Spires and rose windows.
What are two features of Medieval architecture?
200
He used his telescope to discover that the Sun was the centre of the universe, supporting the Copernican theory.
Who was Galileo?
300
It is a concept relating to the study of human beings, their actions and interests.
What is humanism?
300
A city-state that grew into one of the most powerful and wealthy on the Italian peninsula. It had the advantages of being located on a plain, near the Arno River, and near an old trade route which ran to Rome, Naples, Genoa, and Venice.
What is Florence?
300
A great inventor and artist during the Renaissance. He is the Italian artist best recognised as an example of a “Universal Man”.
Who was Leonardo da Vinci?
300
He was the famous architect who designed the dome of the Florence Cathedral.
Who was Brunelleschi?
300
He was a physician who proved that blood circulated around the body.
Who was William Harvey?
400
This feature of Italian Renaissance thought stressed personality, uniqueness, genius, and self-confidence.
What is individualism?
400
Battles in the middle ages against the Muslims that led to Europe gaining new technologies and allowed them to move out of the middle ages into the Renaissance.
What are the Crusades?
400
A wealthy supporter of the arts.
What is a patron of the arts?
400
The name given to the style of architecture in the Middle Ages.
What is Gothic?
400
The Renaissance mathematician, astronomer and Catholic cleric from Poland who first created a mathematical model that showed the sun, not the earth, as the center of our universe.
Who was Nicolas Copernicus?
500
This Renaissance attitude stressed that explanations for everything could be discovered through observation and reason rather than spiritual beliefs or faith.
What is secularism?
500
He was an explorer who accidentally sailed to the Americas when he was hoping to reach Asia from the west.
Who was Christopher Columbus?
500
This Florentine family included some of the most influential patrons of art in the Renaissance.
Who were the Medicis?
500
A building in Paris which is widely considered to be one of the finest examples of French Gothic architecture.
What is the Notre Dame Cathedral?
500
He was the German blacksmith who invented the Printing Press.