Why Italy?
This devastating 14th-century disease reduced Europe’s population but left survivors with greater wealth and opportunity.
What is the Black Death?
The word “Renaissance” literally means this.
What is rebirth?
Humanists often studied classical texts written in these two ancient languages.
What are Greek and Latin?
This Renaissance genius painted the Mona Lisa.
Who is Leonardo da Vinci?
Wealthy people who financially supported artists were known by this term.
What are patrons?
This sea connected Italy to trade routes from the Byzantine Empire and Muslim world.
What is the Mediterranean Sea?
Renaissance thinkers looked to the achievements of these two ancient civilizations for inspiration.
What are the Greece and Roman civilizations?
Humanists believed that these two activities could lead to excellence.
What is education and self-improvement?
This artist sculpted the statue of David and painted the Sistine Chapel ceiling.
Who is Michelangelo?
This Italian city became the birthplace of the Renaissance thanks in part to the Medici.
What is Florence?
Because Italy was once the center of this ancient empire, Renaissance scholars could study its ruins and texts.
What is the Roman Empire?
This intellectual movement focused on human potential and achievements.
What is humanism?
This humanist believed that through education one could be prepared for life at court.
Who was Baldassare Castiglione?
Renaissance artists developed this technique to create the illusion of depth on flat surfaces.
What is perspective?
Popes in this city funded many Renaissance art projects including St. Peter’s Basilica.
What is Rome?
Italian merchants grew wealthy trading with this eastern empire whose capital was Constantinople.
What is the Byzantine Empire?
Renaissance scholars studied subjects like history, literature, and philosophy known collectively as these.
What are the humanities?
This invention helped spread Renaissance learning across Europe by producing books faster and cheaper.
What is the printing press?
This Italian artist painted famous religious works such as The School of Athens.
Who is Raphael?
Patrons funded artists partly to gain these social benefits:
What is fame / status / prestige / political influence / portraits?
Centers of trade and Renaissance culture, Florence, Venice, and Milan were known as these.
What are city-states?
Unlike medieval thinkers who focused mostly on religion, Renaissance thinkers focused more on this aspect of human life and potential.
What is secular?
This Italian poet is often called the “Father of Humanism.”
Who is Francesco Petrarch?
Renaissance artists studied this academic field to make their sculptures and paintings more realistic.
What is anatomy?
This powerful banking family of Florence supported many Renaissance artists.
Who are the Medici family?