Rulers & Leaders of the Renaissance
This family was the major ruling family in the Renaissance because they controlled the banks. They often supported artists and influenced culture as well.
Who is the Medici family?
This idea was developed by Thomas Aquinas. He merged faith and reason together and focused his ideas on the good of humanity.
What is Humanism?
Who is known as a Renaissance Man and is equally known for his art AND science?
Who is Leonardo da Vinci?
What family was the most prominent in Florence during the Renaissance?
Who is the Medici family?
This disease occurred in the Middle Ages. In the Renaissance period people became more intrigued with science and health because of this outbreak.
What is the Black Plague?
This ruler of the Renaissance was famously known for having six wives. He also separated from the Catholic church and created the Church of England.
Who is King Henry VIII?
The very name Renaissance means the ideas of new beginnings and a turning away from old, dark ideas.
What is "rebirth"?
Artists spend a great deal of time focusing on this subject matter during the Renaissance. We see evidence of this in Michelanglo's sculptures David and La Pieta.
What is the human body?
What is on the Mediterrean Sea?
This invention during the Renaissance encouraged ideas to spread very quickly (even more quickly than trade!).
What is the printing press by Johaness Gutenburg?
This monk lead a reformation of the Catholic church by nailing his 95 theses to the door of the Church.
Who is Martin Luther?
This system helped to establish many artists of the Renaissance. Wealthy people would provide a salary or pay for artists to complete work.
What is the system of patronage?
Artists created this concept in their art by creating depth and the appearance of three dimensions.
What is perspective?
Even though the Medici family ruled Florence, it was still considered to have this type of government.
What is a republic?
Copernicus was a scientist who proposed that the sun did not revolve around the earth, which is the geocentric model. Instead he proposed this idea.
What is that the earth revolves around the sun or the heliocentric model?
This is the title of the book written by Niccolo Machiavelli which addresses how to obtain and maintain power.
Niccolo Machiavelli had the idea that once someone was in power, they should do everything possible to maintain that power. He famously said, "the ends..."
This author wrote in the people's vernacular, or everyday language.
Who is Shakespeare?
What was Florence considered the birthplace of art and culture during the Renaissance?
What is because many artists lived there (Michelangelo. da Vinci, Donatello, Raphael. etc)?
This scientist studied the sky through a telescope, which allowed him to make many new discoveries about physics.
Who was Galileo Gallilei?
This king of France was also a great patron of the arts and assisted the artistic and cultural growth in France.
Who is Francis I?
During the Renaissance, there was a desire to return to this type of education, which was very popular during the Ancient Greek time period.
This was the year that da Vinci painted the Mona Lisa.
What is 1503?
What Greek city was Florence modeled after?
What is Athens?
This scientist focused on observation and truly understanding the concept based on observable facts and not just theories.
Who was Sir Francis Bacon?