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VIPs II
Great Works
Causes and Effects
Big Time Stuff
100
Powerful family in Florence, Italy who were patrons of the emerging Renaissance art.
What is the Medici Family?
100
Best known work is the Mona Lisa.
Who is Leonardo da Vinci?
100
Donatello's famous statue.
What is "David"?
100
Invention that caused the spread of Reformation ideas which in turn caused the spread of the Reformation.
What is the Printing Press?
100
The place where Michelangelo's most famous painting is located.
What is the Sistine Chapel?
200
Designed and built the Duomo of Florence and helped discover the idea of single point perspective (aka linear perspective).
Who is Filippo Brunelleschi?
200
An Italian astronomer who invented the telescope and was executed by the Church for heresy.
Who is Galileo Galilei?
200
Raphael's most famous painting.
What is the "School of Athens"?
200
The major philosophy that came about as a result of the Renaissance and greatly influenced the Reformation and Counter-Reformation.
What is Humanism?
200
The period of European history at the close of the Middle Ages and the rise of the Modern world. It represents a cultural rebirth from the 14th through the middle of the 17th centuries.
What is the Renaissance?
300
Considered the “father of oil of oil paintings” and one of his most important works was the Altar Piece at Ghent.
Who is Jan van Eyck?
300
Created the Anglican Church.
Who is Henry the VIII?
300
Document that spread across Europe and helped to start the Protestant Reformation.
What is the "95 Theses"?
300
They caused Martin Luther to write and nail the 95 theses to the church door at Wittenberg.
What are Indulgences?
300
The 16th-century religious, political, intellectual and cultural movement that sought to break away and fix the corruption of the Catholic Church.
What is the Reformation?
400
He established a Protestant denomination in Geneva and helped to explain the idea of predestination.
Who is John Calvin?
400
Astronomer who built on Copernicus' work and came up with the Three Major Laws of Planetary Motion?
Who is Johannes Kepler?
400
Machiavelli's political book which explained what politicians do (reality), not what they should do (theory).
What is "The Prince"?
400
It's the language that we now read and write the Bible in as an effect of the Reformation.
What is Vernacular language?
400
Meeting of Catholic leaders to discuss the challenges brought by the Protestant Reformation. Sought to do two things: reform from within and stop the spread of Protestantism.
What is the Council of Trent?
500
A Dutch Renaissance humanist, Catholic priest, social critic, teacher, and theologian who was known as the "Prince of the Humanists". Questions he raised played a major role in the Protestant Reformation and Catholic Counter-Reformation.
Who is Erasmus?
500
Is know as the "Father of Humanism," a philosophy that helped spark the Renaissance.
Who is Petrarch?
500
Thomas More's famous book that tried to show better model of society.
What is the "Utopia"?
500
It was one of the main reasons the Renaissance began in Italy.
What is the wealth of the northern Italian city-states?
500
The assembly meeting of the Holy Roman Empire which basically forbade anyone to shelter Martin Luther or provide him with aid. The edict stated that Luther should be captured and punished as a heretic.
What is the Diet of Worms?
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