Italian Renaissance
What is the name of the family that dominated Florence?
The Medici
Who created movable type printing?
Johann Gutenberg
What material in paints made it possible to develop richer colors?
oil
What language united scholars throughout Europe during the Renaissance?
Latin
What is the idea that people should question everything?
Skepticism
Which city in northeast Italy got rich through trade with the east?
Which country experienced the Elizabethan Age?
England
Who was famous as a painter, sculptor, inventor and scientist and known for The Last Supper?
Leonardo da Vinci
What is the word used to describe local languages?
Vernacular
What was the name of the philosophy focusing on the potential of people?
Humanism
What were people who supported the arts called?
patrons
What region became the artistic center of Northern Europe?
Flanders
David
Who was the famous English writer who gave us works like Romeo and Juliet?
William Shakespeare
Machiavelli
What is the name given to a man who was knowledgeable about many different things?
Renaissance Man
In what country did Cristine de Pizan question different treatment between boys and girls?
France
Who famously painted Madonna and Child?
Rafael
Who wrote Utopia?
Thomas More
Who is considered the Father of Humanism?
Francesco Petrarch
What was the name of the large state in southern Italy?
Naples
Who was the German artist who studied in Italy and brought their techniques back?
Albrecht Durer
Which female painter painted a portrait of Spanish king Philip II
Sofonisba Anguissola
Who wrote The Praise of Folly?
Erasmus
Who wrote the Decameron, a series of stories of people trying to survive the plague?
Giovanni Boccaccio