Contributors of the Renaissance
Artwork
Vocabulary I
People of the Protestant Reformation
Events of the Protestant Reformation
Vocabulary II
100
This person was quoted for saying "A leader must do good when possible, but be ready to do evil when necessary."
Who is Niccolo Machiavelli?
100
This painting by Leonardo Di Vinci depicts Jesus and his disciples enjoying a meal.
What is the Last Supper?
100
The place where souls go, assured of their eternal salvation, but who still have need of purification to enter the happiness of heaven.
What is Purgatory?
100
This German monk became displeased with the Catholic Church and its selling of indulgences.
Who is Martin Luther?
100
Martin Luther determined that this was all you needed to gain salvation.
What is "Only Faith or Sola Fide."
100
This is the common everyday language spoken in an area.
What is the vernacular?
200
This person was the father of the Italian Renaissance and began the humanist emphasis on using pure classical Latin.
Who is Francesco Petrarch?
200
This statue carved by Michelangelo.
What is the Statue of David?
200
This person wrote a very influential book on how to gain and maintain political power.
Who is Niccolo Machiavelli?
200
This king of England that was once known as a defender of the faith, had 6 wives.
Who is King Henry VIII?
200
Prompted by the corruptions of the church, particularly the sale of indulgences, Martin Luther nailed this to the door of the local church.
What is Luther's 95 Theses?
200
A painting that is done on fresh wet plaster.
What is a Fresco?
300
This author wrote his Divine Comedy about the soul's journey to attain paradise in the everyday common language.
Who is Dante?
300
This painting of God and Adam can be found in this holy building.
What is the Sistine Chapel?
300
This person had an idea to mass produce books using movable type.
Who is Johan Guttenberg?
300
This person was an early humanist that believed Christianity should show people how to live good lives on a daily basis, not just provide beliefs that might help them be saved.
Who is Desiderius Erasmus?
300
King Henry VIII got one of these from Catherine of Aragon after 24 years of marriage.
What is an annulment?
300
The process of being deemed worthy of salvation.
What is Justification?
400
These artists all worked during the time period known as the High Renaissance.
Who is Leonardo, Michelangelo, and Raphael?
400
These new artistic advances helped to bring more realism to paintings.
What is perspective, oil based paints, study of human anatomy, and shading?
400
This item was granted by the Catholic Church to an individual to remove all or part of the punishment of sin.
What is an indulgence?
400
This priest was selling indulgences in the city of Wittenberg prompting Martin Luther to write his 95 Theses.
Who is Johan Tetzel?
400
This action by Parliament declared that King Henry VIII was the only supreme head on earth of the new Church of England.
What is the Act of Supremacy?
400
A movement combining classical learning and individualism with the goal of reforming the Catholic Church.
What is Christian Humanism?
500
The phrase "The ends justify the means" credited to Machiavelli means this.
It doesn't matter how you achieve your goal as long as it is accomplished.
500
This Renaissance man designed this bladed chariot.
Who is Leonardo Di Vinci?
500
The idea that god had already decided who would and who would not gain entry into heaven.
What is Predestination?
500
This person followed in the footsteps of Martin Luther and introduced the idea of Predestination.
Who is John Calvin?
500
This period of change within the Catholic Church in an attempt to regain its followers lost to Protestantism.
What is the Catholic Reformation or Counter Reformation?
500
The German Princes could now choose between Catholicism and Lutheranism as a result of this.
The Peace of Augsburg.