Vocabulary
Italian & Northern Renaissance Questions
General Renaissance Questions
Vocabulary
General Renaissance Questions
100

Who is Leonardo da Vinci 

Painter, sculptor, and scientist

100

Who are the two Northern Renaissance artists?

Jan Van Eyck, Pieter Bruegel

100

What is the name of the book that Martin Luther question the Catholic leaders practices?

95 Theses

100

Define Renaissance

It means rebirth and reform

100

Where did the Renaissances start? 

Italy
200

Define Council of Trent

 Meeting of the Catholic leaders to talk about the Protestant Reformation

200

Who are the three Italian Renaissance artists?

Leonardo da Vinci, Michelangelo, Raphael 

200

Why did the Protestant Reformation start? 

Overuse of power and sale of indulgences

200

Define Anabaptists

A reformist  group who believed only adults should be baptized 



200
Why is the Printing Press important?

It helped spread the ideas by allowing books to be made faster and cost less money

300

Define humanism

Focus on the individual 

300

What characteristics are found in the  Northern Renaissance artwork?

Realism, humanism, perspective, showing everyday life, symbolism

300

Who invented the printing press? 

Johann Gutenberg

300

Define City-States

A city surrounding a territory forming an independent state

300

What are the four themes of the Renaissances? 

Scholarship, Education, Humanism, Literature

400

Define perspective

three dimensions on a flat surface

400

What advantages did Italy have to make it the birthplace of the Renaissance?

Thriving Cities, Wealthy merchant, Classical heritage of Greece & Rome, TRADE

400
What is one example of how scholarship shows up in the Renaissances?

- Everybody questioning things 

- Michelangelo challenging the Pope on what he put on the Sistine Chapel

-Protestant reformers challenging the church

400

Who is Pieter Bruegel  

Flemish painter know for the Peasant Wedding

400

Who are the reformers?

Martin Luther, John Calvin, King Henry VIII, Anabaptists, Huldrych Zwingli

500

Define symbolism

Objects representing bigger ideas

500

What characteristics are found in the Italian Renaissance artwork? 

Realism, Religion, Humanism, Classic Greek and Roman, Perspective

500

What did the Catholic leaders do in response to the Protestant Reformation ?

Banned the sell of indulgences, create the Council of Trent

500

What is the Catholic Reformation?

Where the Roman Catholic Church sought to make changes in response of the Protestant Reformation

500

What is one political effect from the Reformation?

Individual monarch's-such as an individual ruler who functions as a head of state start to gain power

started to see development of modern-nation states 

Reformation lays the groundwork for the Enlightenment

Rulers of the nation-states seeked more power for themselves

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