Renaissance Basics
This word means “rebirth” and describes a renewed interest in classical learning.
What is the Renaissance?
An artistic technique that creates the illusion of depth on a flat surface.
What is perspective?
A powerful banking family that dominated Florence and supported artists.
Who were the Medici?
The religious movement that challenged the authority of the Catholic Church in the 1500s.
What is the Protestant Reformation?
The English king who broke from the Catholic Church.
Who is Henry VIII?
The ancient civilizations whose ideas inspired Renaissance thinkers.
What are ancient Greece and Rome?
Renaissance artists studied this to make their paintings and sculptures more realistic.
What is human anatomy?
This artist painted, invented machines, studied anatomy, and designed buildings.
Who is Leonardo da Vinci?
This reformer taught that salvation comes through faith alone.
Who is Martin Luther?
This 1534 law made the English king head of the Church of England.
What is the Act of Supremacy?
This intellectual movement focused on human potential and the study of classical texts.
What is humanism?
Renaissance art shifted away from flat, symbolic images to focus on this.
What is realism / the individual / human-centered art?
The term used to describe someone skilled in many fields during the Renaissance.
What is a Renaissance man?
The Catholic practice that involved selling forgiveness from punishment for sin.
What are indulgences?
A religious group that believed in adult baptism and separation of church and state.
Who were the Anabaptists?
This social group grew in importance during the Renaissance and included merchants and artisans.
Who were the burghers?
This Renaissance thinker wrote The Prince and argued rulers should be practical, not idealistic.
Who is Niccolò Machiavelli?
Two other major Renaissance artists besides Leonardo da Vinci.
Who are Michelangelo and Raphael?
This belief teaches that God has already chosen who will be saved.
What is predestination?
The Catholic meeting that clarified doctrine and rejected Protestant beliefs.
What is the Council of Trent?
This invention helped spread Renaissance ideas quickly and cheaply across Europe.
What is the printing press?
The main goal of Renaissance “liberal studies” education.
What is developing wise, virtuous, well-rounded citizens?
This thinker believed political power should be based on understanding human nature and self-interest.
Who is Machiavelli?
The reformer most closely associated with predestination.
Who is John Calvin?
This Catholic order focused on education and missionary work to strengthen the Church.
Who are the Jesuits?