Ideology
An outlook on showing human values and their achievements rather than focusing on divine or supernatural matters.
What is Humanism?
A wealthy family in Italy that supported and funded most of the Renaissance.
Who are the Medici Family?
An Italian nation state that is known as the birthplace of the Renaissance.
What is Florence, Italy?
Religious movement that began as an attempt to reform/change the Roman Catholic Church and resulted in the creation of Protestant churches (Methodist, Lutheran, Baptist, Presbyterian, Pentecostal, etc).
What is the Protestant Reformation?
Written text by Machiavelli that focused on the relationship between a ruler and those they ruled and how government leaders view their responsibilities to their people.
Writings, architecture, and art from Ancient Greece and Rome.
What is the Classical World?
Inventor of the movable type printing press.
Who is Johannes Gutenburg?
The cultural rebirth that occurred in Europe from roughly the 1300s through the 1600s based on the rediscovery of the literature of Greece and Rome and the development of humanist ideas.
What is the Renaissance?
Everyday language people speak in a region.
What is the vernacular?
Painted the Sistine Chapel in St. Peter’s Cathedral, sculpted David and The Pieta among many others.
In the arts is the attempt to represent subject matter truthfully, without artificiality and avoiding artistic conventions, implausible, exotic and supernatural elements.
What is Realism?
First person to challenge the Catholic Church and its practices by nailing his 95 Theses to the All Saint Church door calling for changes to be made in the Catholic Church.
Who is Martin Luther?
A movable type device that allowed faster copies of Renaissance and Reformation texts to be made and distributed.
Printing Press
A pardon or forgiveness of a sin sold by the Catholic Church to raise money for Renaissance artists.
What are indulgences?
Painter of the Mona Lisa, sculptor, mathematician, architect, and inventor, known as the first Renaissance Man.
Who is Leonardo da Vinci?
A form of Christianity which began during the Reformation. It was a movement against what its followers considered to be mistakes in the Roman Catholic Church.
What is Protestantism?
Expanded Luther’s reform ideas, calling people to reject the Catholic Church and become a Protestant Calvinist.
Who is John Calvin?
Renaissance humanists studied the ______________ and the ________________ to increase their knowledge of different topics.
Who are the Romans and the Greeks?
A religious belief that God has already decided who will go to heaven and who will not.
What is predestination?
What was important painting of Leonardo Da Vinci that used perspective painting?
What was the Lord's Supper?
The study about God.
What is theology?
One of the greatest writers of the Renaissance, who wrote 37 plays including comedies, tragedies, and histories.
Who is William Shakespeare?
The Renaissance was not a single event, but rather a _______________________________.
What is a widespread change in culture specifically art and learning.
King of England; who protested the Catholic Church in order to get a divorce.
Who is King Henry VIII?
Perhaps the most famous piece of art in the world, the Mona Lisa, was created by ___________________.
Who is Leonardo da Vinci?