Renaissance Ideas
What Italian city is often considered the birthplace of the Renaissance?
Florence
Who wrote The Prince?
Niccolò Machiavelli
Who painted the Mona Lisa?
Leonardo da Vinci
Who controlled the Papal States during the Renaissance?
Pope
What invention by Johannes Gutenberg helped spread Renaissance ideas in northern Europe?
Printing Press
Which Florentine thinker is called the “father of humanism”?
Petrarch
What was Thomas More’s Utopia about?
An ideal society based on reason, equality, and justice
What innovation in art allowed for more depth and realism in paintings?
Linear Perspective
Which family dominated Florentine politics and patronage of the arts?
The Medici family
Which German painter was known for his woodcuts and engravings that spread the Renaissance style?
Albrecht Dürer
Define “secularism” as it applied to Renaissance thought.
Focus on worldly matters rather than purely religious ones
Which Dutch Christian humanist emphasized reform through education and wrote In Praise of Folly?
Erasmus
Which artist painted the School of Athens?
Raphael
What practice of the Catholic Church did Martin Luther later criticize that was already common in the late Renaissance?
The sale of indulgences
Who was the Dutch humanist known as the “Prince of the Humanists”?
Erasmus
Name one way Renaissance thinkers broke from medieval scholasticism.
Emphasis on classical texts, individualism, empirical observation, etc
Medieval Artwork focused on this medical event
The Black Death
Which artist created the sculpture of "David."
Michaleango
Which 1494 event weakened Florence and spread Renaissance ideas across Europe?
French invasion of Italy
Describe Feudalism and its structure in the Holy Roman Empire.
P, L, K, E, P
What did Lorenzo Valla prove through his analysis of the Donation of Constantine?
That it was a forgery, undermining papal authority
How did humanist education differ from medieval education?
Focused on classical texts, rhetoric, history, ethics, rather than just theology
Which Renaissance artist painted the frescoes on the ceiling of the Sistine Chapel, and what is the Fresco style?
Michelangelo
How did the Italian city-states' governmental style differ from that elsewhere in Europe
Acted as their own countries, etc.
How did the Northern Renaissance differ from the Italian Renaissance?
More emphasis on Christian humanism, reforming society through religion and morality, less focus on classical paganism