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100
This banking city was in a rather precarious situation, often requiring effective statecraft to maintain its power.
What is Florence?
100
Michelangelo created the statue of David and 'Creation of Man' to make this statement about the capabilities of mankind.
What is man is great/made in God's image?
100
This focus on the 'here and now' was a major emphasis of Italian humanism.
What is Secularism?
100
This controversial friar was finally burned by the pope for heresy.
Who is Savanarola?
100
Working people who were excluded from influence in Italian communes.
Who are the popolo?
200
This city was ruled by the Sforza family.
What is Milan?
200
These themes/techniques make Boticelli's 'Birth of Venus' very typical of the "High Renaissance".
What is classical subject with expression and realism?
200
This humanist expressed his admiration for classical thinkers by writing letters to them.
Who is Petrarch?
200
This pope was widely criticized for his overtly immoral behavior.
Who is Pope Alexander VI (the Borgia Pope)?
200
This technological development allowed information to be spread faster than ever before.
What is the printing press?
300
His death marked the end of the 'golden age' of Florence.
Who is Lorenzo de Medici (the magnificent)?
300
Giotto strayed from typical medieval painting styles by: a) Focusing more on Classical themes b) Using linear perspective effectively c) Using greater realism and expression in faces
What is: c) Using greater realism and expression in faces?
300
*DAILY DOUBLE* This humanist believed that humans could 'ascend the chain of being' to be closer to God by using their capacity for knowledge and understanding.
Who is Pico della Mirandola?
300
Erasmus was condemned for this by the papacy in the mid-sixteenth century.
What is translating the Bible?
300
A man, such as Leonardo, who is an individual with a variety of talents.
What is a Renaissance Man?
400
These FIVE POWERS dominated Italian politics in the 15th Century.
What is: Florence Milan Naples Venice The Papal States (Rome)
400
Heironymus Bosch shared this most of all in common with Erasmus.
What is criticism of immorality in church and society?
400
An English humanist wrote this to lament society's sinful ways by imagining a perfect and ethically pure island.
What is Thomas More's 'Utopia'?
400
Pope Leo X ordered the expansion of indulgences in order to finance the construction of this building.
What is St. Peters Basilica?
400
This architect studied classical techniques in order to build Florence's 'duomo' on the 'Basilica di Santa Maria del Fiore'.
Who is Brunelleschi?
500
This document, later proved to be false, was the church's justification for its ownership of land.
What is the Donation of Constantine?
500
This Flemish painter of the Northern Renaissance frequently painted peasants to criticize their materialism, sometimes using satirical portraits to emphasize their immoral nature.
Who is Quentin Massys?
500
"Next to the theologians in happiness are those who commonly call themselves the religious and monks. Both are complete misnomers, since most of them stay as far away from religion as possible, and no people are seen more often in public. They are so detested that it is considered bad luck if one crosses your path, and yet they are highly pleased with themselves. They cannot read, and so they consider it the height of piety to have no contact with literature." This was likely written by...
Who is Erasmus?
500
This pope, nicknamed "The Warrior Pope" led an aggressive foreign policy for 10 years.
Who is Pope Julius II?
500
*DAILY DOUBLE* Grandson of Ferdinand and Isabella, this King of Spain became the most powerful man in Europe when he also gained the position of "Holy Roman Emperor".
Who is Charles V (r.1519-1556) ?
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