Causes of the
Renaissance
Renaissance
This family lived in and ruled Florence in the early 1400's and commissioned famous works of art from artists like Leonardo da Vinci and Michelangelo
Who were the Medici?
The time following the Middle Ages when Europeans rediscovered the art and learning of Greece and Rome.
What was the Renaissance?
Which Renaissance idea is best expressed by the following quote? "The path of your life is in your hands."
What is humanism
The purpose of much of this type of art was to show the importance of ordinary people and civic leaders, as well as gods and goddesses.
What is classical art?
One of the most iconic painters and sculptors in all of art history, whose works include painting the Sistine Chapel and the statue of David.
Who is Michelangelo
This event resulted in a significant decrease in the part of society necessary for feudalism to work.
What was the plague?
This group paid for art to be created and structures to be built, funding the artists and architects who created some of the greatest paintings, sculptures, and buildings in history.
Who were patrons
Which Renaissance idea is best expressed by the following quote? "You can enjoy your life without offending God."
What is secularism?
This type of art showed the importance of people and nature, not just religious ideas while using new techniques.
What is Renaissance art?
To what field did leading figures like Nicolaus Copernicus and Andreas Vesalius make significant contributions?
What is science?
What series of events increased contact between European Christians and Muslims of the Middle East?
What were the Crusades?
This city is considered to be the birthplace of the Renaissance.
What is Florence?
Which Renaissance idea is best expressed by the following quote? "The first duty of a man is to think for himself."
What is individualism?
The purpose of much of this type of art was to teach religion to people who could not read or write.
What is medieval art?
Italian painter, sculptor, inventor, & engineer who is most famous for the Mona Lisa.
Leonardo da Vinci
This event introduced technology that reduced the power of feudal lords and increasing feelings of nationalism.
What was the 100 Years War?
This group was inspired by classical texts and emphasized the dignity and worth of the person.
Who were humanists
Niccolo Machiavelli encouraged rulers to do this to protect their city and their power.
What is whatever was necessary rather than to do good?
This type of painting is often flat, one-dimensional and has subjects whose faces were serious and showed little expression.
What is medieval art?
Writers like William Shakespeare, Dante Alighieri, and Geoffrey Chaucer used the everyday spoken language of an area or the what?
What is the vernacular?
A rebirth of classical learning and a new belief in human potential ultimately replaced what social and economic system of the Middle Ages?
What was Feudalism?
This Florentine writer had a large impact on the early stages of the Renaissance and is often referred to as the father of humanism.
Who is Petrarch?
The Catholic Church and its leaders were critical of Renaissance philosophies because,
What is they threatened the church's authority/power.
This type of painting is more realistic and life-like reflecting an increasing knowledge of anatomy and whose subject's faces expressed what people were feeling.
What is renaissance art?
In the 1450's Johannes Gutenberg invented this type of printing press that spread the ideas of the Renaissance further and faster than ever before.
What is the "movable type" printing press.