Black Death
This most deadly form of the plague infected the blood, with a mortality rate close to 100%.
What is the Septicemic Plague?
This is the literal meaning of the word "Renaissance."
What is Rebirth?
This city is considered the birthplace of the Renaissance.
What is Florence?
This intellectual movement emphasized the importance of human potential and individual achievement.
What is Humanism?
This Italian artist is known for the Mona Lisa and The Last Supper.
Who is Leonardo da Vinci?
This is the name for the painful, swollen lymph nodes that characterized the Bubonic Plague.
What are Buboes?
The period of the Renaissance spanned roughly these centuries.
What are the 14th to the 17th centuries (1300s to 1600s)?
This powerful family, famous for banking, gained political power and became great patrons of the arts in Florence.
Who are the Medici Family?
This Italian scholar and poet is often considered the "Father of Humanism."
Who is Francesco Petrarch?
This Italian artist is famous for The School of Athens.
Who is Raphael?
This is the city in the Black Sea where the plague reached Europe via trade routes in 1346.
What is Kaffa?
This artistic technique involves mixing pigment with water and painting onto wet plaster.
What is Fresco?
This city, located on the Adriatic Sea, gained wealth through shipbuilding and was a commercial link between Asia and Western Europe.
What is Venice?
This Florentine poet wrote Divine Comedy, detailing a journey through Hell, Purgatory, and Paradise.
Who is Dante Alighieri?
This Italian artist sculpted the marble David and painted the ceiling of the Sistine Chapel.
Who is Michelangelo?
This social and economic system was challenged by the massive labor shortage resulting from the plague.
What is Feudalism?
This is the term for a wealthy individual or institution providing financial support and commissions to artists.
What is Patronage?
As the Renaissance progressed, the center of cultural activity shifted from Florence to this city, which housed the Papal States.
What is Rome?
This political philosopher wrote The Prince, dedicated to Lorenzo de' Medici, giving advice on how to acquire and hold power.
Who is Niccolo Machiavelli?
This is the term for an organization of artisans and merchants, like the Silk Guild, that helped train apprentices and acted as patrons of the arts.
What are Guilds?
This was the strategy used in Venice to contain the plague's spread from newly arrived ships.
What is Quarantine?
This Italian architect rediscovered the principles of linear perspective and designed The Dome in Florence.
Who is Filippo Brunelleschi?
The Pazzi Conspiracy was an unsuccessful plot to overthrow the power of the Medici in this city.
What is Florence?
This German inventor revolutionized knowledge dissemination with his invention of the movable type printing press around 1440.
Who is Johannes Gutenberg?
This individual, the grandson of Cosimo the Elder, was a major patron and head of the Medici family and the state of Florence, known as "the Magnificent."
Who is Lorenzo de' Medici (Lorenzo the Magnificent)?