Renaissance Art
This type of wealthy person financially supported Renaissance artists and architects.
Who is a patron?
This English playwright showed individualism through characters who challenged norms, like Hamlet.
Who is William Shakespeare?
This word means "rebirth" and refers to the revival of learning in art, literature, and science.
What is the Renaissance?
This was a religious movement that challenged the Catholic Church and led to new Christian denominations.
What is the Protestant Reformation?
This English king broke away from the Catholic Church and started the Church of England.
Who is Henry VIII?
He painted the Vitruvian Man, which symbolized humanism through its study of ideal human proportions.
Who is Leonardo da Vinci?
Renaissance writers often wrote in this everyday language instead of Latin.
What is the vernacular?
This intellectual movement emphasized studying worldly subjects and classical texts.
What is humanism?
This German monk started the Reformation by posting 95 Theses criticizing Church practices.
Who is Martin Luther?
The Church of England was created so Henry VIII could get one of these.
What is a divorce?
Renaissance art reflected this idea by focusing on realistic human features and emotions.
What is humanism?
This political thinker wrote The Prince, discussing power and leadership with realistic, harsh truths.
Who is Niccolò Machiavelli?
This Renaissance idea focused on enjoying life and worldly pleasures over strict religious control.
(Also known as the separation of church and society)
What is secularism?
The term "Protestant" came from this action by Luther’s followers.
What is protesting the Church’s teachings?
These were the two main reasons King Henry VIII broke away from the Catholic Church to form the Church of England.
What are his desire for a male heir and his wish to increase his own political power?
This Michelangelo sculpture represents biblical heroism and the Renaissance ideal of individual strength.
What is David?
This ancient theme, revived in Renaissance writing, involved returning to Greco-Roman ideas.
What is classicism?
This invention helped spread Renaissance and Reformation ideas quickly across Europe.
What is the printing press?
Martin Luther strongly opposed the Catholic Church’s practice of selling these as a way to forgive sins.
What are indulgences?
The name of King Henry VIII's new branch of the church.
What is the Anglican church?
This painting technique helped artists show depth and distance by making closer objects larger.
What is perspective?
This Renaissance theme emphasized self-expression and personal achievement, often seen in literature.
What is individualism?
This helped spread Renaissance ideas to other countries.
Trade
This was the Catholic Church’s official response to Martin Luther after he refused to recant his criticisms.
What is excommunication?
This wife of King Henry VIII was the reason he broke from the Catholic Church to form the Church of England.
Who is Catherine of Aragon?