Art & Artists
This Italian artist painted the Mona Lisa
Leonardo Da Vinci
This German monk started the Protestant Reformation in 1517
Martin Luther
This device allowed books to be mass-produced in Europe.
The Printing Press
This Renaissance idea focused on human potential and achievement
Humanism
This term means to be officially kicked out of the Church
Excommunication
He sculpted David and painted the Sistine Chapel ceiling
Michelangelo
This English playwright wrote many plays during the Renaissance, including Romeo and Juliet
William Shakespeare
Galileo improved this device to observe planets and moons.
Telescope
A Renaissance term for a rebirth of learning and culture after the Middle Ages
Rebirth
This council met to reform the Catholic Church and respond to Protestantism
Council Of Trent
This sculptor created the bronze statue David in Florence.
Donatello
This philosopher promoted scientific thinking and mathematics, developing methods that influenced modern science
Galileo Galilei
This device shows direction using a magnetic needle
A Compass
This means “to formally give up or reject a belief,” often under pressure from authority
Recant
Luther’s 95 theses protested this Church practice of selling pardons
Sale Of Indulgences
He painted School of Athens, showing philosophers like Plato and Aristotle
Raphael
This Flemish scientist invented the printing press in the 1400s
Johannes Gutenberg
This is why Italy was able to acquire different cultures and technologies during the Renaissance? The location of Italy helped them do this
Trade Routes
Renaissance artists often focused on this type of art, portraying realistic human figures and nature
Naturalism or Realism
A protest against the practices of the church that erupted in the Renaissance period
Protestant Reformation
He translated the Bible into the English language
John Wycliffe
A famous Renaissance writer from Italy, known as the “Father of Humanism.”
Petrarch
Give me at least one invention that Leonardo Da Vinci drew in his journal
machines, tanks, helicopter, and other inventions
Payments made to the church to repent sins
Indulgences
John Calvin, a major Reformer, taught that God had already chosen who would be saved, a doctrine called this
Predestination