Terms
Define renaissance.
What is a time period during which there was a revival of art, architecture, and literature?
Which painting is most likely a portrait of Lisa Gherardini?
What is Mona Lisa?
Who wrote a book called Utopia, which is still used as the word for a perfect society?
Who is Sir Thomas More?
What was Machiavelli's main argument in The Prince?
What is a ruler must do anything and everything to stay in power?
How did the Bubonic Plague spread?
What is the disease traveled along the Silk Road, and fleas jumped off of infected rats onto other animals and people.
Define humanism.
What is the focus on the potential and dignity of human beings, and the pursuit of doing what is right and good for the benefit of mankind?
Which technique was used to paint The Last Supper?
What is fresco?
Who surpassed his master's level of art?
Who is Leonardo Da Vinci?
What does Hamlet reflect on?
What is nature and existence?
What principle did Italy's scholars begin to embrace?
Define classicism.
What is respect for Greco-Roman art, literature, architecture, and philosophy?
Who created the first life-sized free standing male nude since ancient times?
Who is Donatello?
Who believed it is better for a ruler to be feared than loved?
Who is Niccolo Machiavelli?
What is the name of Machiavelli's second and very different book?
What is Discourse on Livy?
What word means the common language?
What is vernacular?
What is the focus on worldly ideas and topics instead of just religion and seen more in Northern Renaissance than in the Italian Renaissance?
Who sculpted David before his battle with Goliath?
Who is Michelangelo?
Who sculpted David using bronze?
Who is Donatello?
According to Hamlet, why should one continue to endure life's sufferings rather than end their life?
What is the fear and uncertainty of what happens after death?
What technique did Jan Van Eyck perfect?
What is oil painting?
Define scholarship.
What is dealing with reason, curiosity, and experimentation?
What painting used fresco and used Da Vinci, Bramante, and Michelangelo as models?
What is School of Athens?
Who is Baldassare Castiglione?
What is "The Courtier?"
What is proof that Machiavelli's work influenced the US government?
What is John Adams praised Machiavelli's ideas about mixed government to help write our Constitution?
Why were Northern European artists limited in their use of fresco painting?
What is there wasn't enough space?