Renaissance Art and Architecture
What is the term for the style of art that focuses on human perspective, and details that look like real life?
What is Realism?
Which city is often considered the birthplace of the Renaissance?
What is Florence?
During the Renaissance, people started to write in the _______
What is the vernacular?
Who is known for posting the 95 Theses, which challenged the Catholic Church?
Who is Martin Luther?
What religion emerged from Martin Luther's teachings?
What is Lutheranism?
Who painted the famous mural on the ceiling of the Sistine Chapel?
Who is Michelangelo?
What invention helped spread Renaissance ideas quickly throughout Europe?
What is the printing press?
Which famous playwright is known for works such as "Romeo and Juliet"?
Who is William Shakespeare?
Which English king created the Church of England?
Who is Henry VIII?
Which religion was the first to say that your fate and salvation were up to predestination?
What is Calvinism?
What architectural feature became popular during the Renaissance?
Extra points if you can name more than 2.
Acceptable:
What is...?
- Symmetry, columns, rounded arches, triangular pediments, domes
Who were the wealthy _____, like the Medici family, supported artists during the Renaissance.
What are patrons?
Who wrote Utopia and was killed in England for sticking to his Catholic beliefs?
Who is Thomas Moore?
What was the name of the movement that sought to reform the Catholic Church?
What was the Protestant Reformation?
How many sacraments exist in Catholicism and in Lutheranism?
What are 7 and 2?
What did Brunelleschi use when laying the bricks in place on his dome to get them to hold the shape?
What is a herringbone pattern?
Also acceptable, though for fewer points: what are guide/lead ropes?
What did a woman's family pay to a man's family when two people got married?
What is a dowry?
Who wrote "The Prince," a guide on political power?
Who is Niccolo Machiavelli?
What reformer is known for his ideas about predestination?
Who is John Calvin?
What was the Catholic Church's response to the Reformation called?
What was the Counter-Reformation?
Albrecht Durer was a famous northern Renaissance artist whose work was widely distributed, known for his _________.
What are woodblock prints?
What was new in Renaissance education?
Need at least 3 things
Companionship, games, pleasure, reading in the vernacular
This famous Renaissance writer used ghost writers, and was part of the Republic of Letters
Who is Erasmus?
These English queens each killed a cousin in order to get or keep power during the Reformation.
Who were Mary I and Elizabeth I?
What was the union of the 7 Netherlands, the protestants who wanted to break away from Spain, called?
What was the Union of Utrecht?