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100
This Biblical hero was the subject of this famous bronze statue by Florentine sculptor Donatello.
Who is David?
100
He was the fifteenth-century inventor of the printing press.
Who is Johannes Gutenberg?
100
This Renaissance artist was famous for his paintings of Mary and the infant Jesus, called Madonnas.
Who is Raphael?
100
This individual from the Renaissance is known as the "father of humanism" because of the education program he introduced.
Who is Petrarch?
100
This collective group maintained standards for anyone working in their craft in a city-state.
What is a Guild?
200
This Renaissance architect designed and built the largest dome in more than a thousand years for the Cathedral of Florence.
Who is Brunelleschi?
200
True or false: very little use of light and shadow, so that figures and objects look flat is a characteristic of medieval art but not Renaissance art.
What is true?
200
A Renaissance cultural movement, of which Petrarch is the father, that turned away from medieval thinking and revived interest in ancient Greek and Roman thought, and stressed the potential value and goodness of human beings.
What is humanism?
200
This individual from the Renaissance was one of the earliest artists to paint rounded, lifelike figures in natural settings.
Who is Giotto?
200
This Florentine sculptor created the first free-standing nude statue in western Europe since classical times.
Who is Donatello?
300
This Renaissance artist also filled notebooks with plans for flying machines and armored cars, observations of plants and animals, and anatomical drawings of the human body.
Who is Leonardo da Vinci?
300
These places in Italy often competed with each other to attract the best artists, poets, and philosophers.
What are Italian City-States?
300
This individual from the Renaissance is known for writing The Divine Comedy using Italian rather than Latin.
Who is Dante?
300
This painting by Leonardo da Vinci of an unknown woman with a mysterious smile and a misty landscape behind her is one of the best known works of art in the world.
What is the Mona Lisa?
300
Renaissance architect Brunelleschi constructed a cathedral dome using ancient Roman techniques in this city. The city is where the Renaissance is thought to have started and where the Medici family ruled.
What is Florence?
400
This artist painted the biblical scenes on the ceiling of the Sistine Chapel.
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Who is Michelangelo?
400
A period of European literary and artistic achievement initially inspired by renewed interest in the Greek and Roman classics.
What is the Renaissance?
400
Brothers Lorenzo, Cosimo, and Giuliano were members of this prominent Florentine Renaissance family.
Who were the Medici?
400
This was the first book fifteenth-century inventor Johannes Gutenberg printed on his printing press.
What is The Bible?
400
He painted The Last Supper, which depicted the last meal Jesus shared with the disciples.
Who is Leonardo da Vinci?
500
Renaissance artists like Leonardo da Vinci showed realistic _______ on the faces they painted to help the viewer feel a connection when viewing it.
What is emotion?
500
He was a master Renaissance artist whose sculptures showed amazing details and realism. His work of the Virgin Mary and Jesus is considered by many to be sculpture perfection.
Who was Michelangelo?
500
He painted The School of Athens.
Who was Raphael?
500
Renaissance artists studied human anatomy, seeking the ideal human form so the subjects they painted were _________.
What is realistic?
500
This wealthy merchant family of Florence contributed much of its wealth to the city for art projects.
Who were the Medici?