Renaissance Start
Where does the word Renaissance come from?
France
Who created the Mona Lisa?
Leonardo Da Vinci
Who is the person that started the Protestant Reformation?
Martin Luther
What is the term "vernacular" during the Renaissance?
The language spoken by the common people of a region
What does the word Renaissance mean? What does it refer to?
Rebirth - Rebirth of culture, art, the classics
Michelangelo painted the roof of what building?
Sistine Chapel
Where was Martin Luther from?
Germany
What are patrons and who was the main patron?
Wealthy individuals who provided financial support to artists, scholars, and scientists.
Lorenzo Medici
Where did the Renaissance begin?
Italy
Da Vinci's drawing the vitruvian man represents what?
They prioritized correct human proportions and realism.
Payments to the church to get out of purgatory or sins.
Indulgences
What does it mean when something becomes more secular?
It is when there is a separation between religion and culture/society
What is the intellectual movement focused on the belief and value of humans and reasoning?
Humanism
Da Vinci's Mona Lisa represents what style of art?
Realism and individualism
What is the Protestant Reformation?
Martin Luther and the people protesting the injustices of the Catholic Church
What are a few reasons for the Renaissance starting where it did?
Location/trade and wealthy patrons
The period right before the Renaissance. Describe it.
What is the Middle Ages - Otherwise known as the Medieval Ages, Bubonic plague, feudal period, lack of growth of culture and arts in Europe. A dark period.
School of Athens painting represents what vocabulary word?
Classicism and the renewal of ancient Greek philosophy
Describe the 95 theses and what Martin Luther believed in.
The 95 Theses are 95 criticisms to the Catholic Church written by Martin Luther starting the Protestant Reformation.
Martin Luther believed in the personal relationship with God and reading the Bible for yourself
Fill in the blank:
1. Improved the telescope ______
2. Wrote the book the Prince ________
3. Wrote Romeo and Juliet _______
4. Inventor and painter ________
5. Renaissance architect who planned a dome ______
1. Galileo?
2. Machiavelli
3. Shakespeare
4. Da Vinci
5. Brunelleschi