Renaissance Arts and Artists
One of the earliest and most influential Italian Renaissance painters.
Who is Giotto?
Promoted education in his writings
Who is Erasmus?
Protestant reformation began because?
What is Martin Luther published a 95 theses?
In the 1300s, the city-state of Florence was governed by these groups.
What are the guilds?
Famous English playwriter
Who is William Shakespeare ?
The artist who brought Renaissance styles to Spain.
Who is El Greco?
One of the earliest humanist writers, often called the “Father of Humanism.”
Who is Petrarch?
What Protestants originally protested
What are the practices of the Roman Catholic Church?
This leader took control of Florence after the plague weakened its economy.
Who is Cosimo de Medici?
special pardons
what are indulgences ?
The first Northern artist to incorporate Italian artistic innovations
Who is Albrecht Dürer?
He contributed to the spread of ideas by developing a printing press with reusable metal letters.
Who is Johannes Gutenberg
The Jesuits spread Catholicism worldwide by doing these two things.
What are opening schools and missionary work?
Raphael included philosophers and mathematicians in St. Peter’s Basilica for this purpose.
What is to show the importance of ancient wisdom to Christian beliefs?
set aside their life as a Spanish noble to live as a beggar
Who is Ignatius of Loyola ?
This sculpture by Michelangelo became a symbol of victory over tyranny.
What is David?
A practice that humanists considered least important.
What is contemplation and prayer?
This action by the King of England caused a break from the Roman Catholic Church.
What is the church did not allow divorce, and the king wanted his marriage annulled
The English Puritans settled the Massachusetts Bay Colony for this reason.
What is to create a haven for their "purified" form of Christianity?
Mona Lisa and Creation of Adam paintings
Who is Leonardo Da Vinci ?
Renaissance arts changed when
what is when they began incorporating perspective ?
Three cultures that most influenced European Renaissance thought.
What are Greek, Roman, and eastern cultures?
These four reformers—Luther, Wycliffe, Hus, and Erasmus—shared this common stance.
What is criticizing the Roman Catholic Church?
These 3 things led to the fall of the Habsburg Dynasty
the defeat of the Spanish Armada, the Saint Bartholomew’s Day massacre, fighting between Catholics and Protestants
Protestant England harassed the Spanish under the rule of
Who is Queen Elizabeth I ?