Italian City-States
Humanism
Social Class
Renaissance Artists

Literature

100
A government in which power comes from its citizen.
What is a republic?
100
A "new way of understanding the world."
What is humanism?
100
The highest ranking class.
Who is the nobles?
100
This person incorporated humanism in his art.
Who is Leonardo da Vinci?
100
The everyday language people spoke.
What is vernacular?
200
A ruler who had absolute power.
What is dictator?
200
Humanism was based off of these ideas.
What is Greek and Roman ideas?
200
Old noble families that moved from the the country to the cities.
What is urban nobles?
200
A way of showing people and things as they appear at different distances.
What is perspective?
200
An invention that helped produced more copies of works of literature.
What is Gutenberg's printing press?
300
The first major center of the Renaissance.
What is the city of Florence?
300
This helped spread humanist ideas throughout Europe.
What is the printing press?
300
This is how nobles gain their wealth.
What is land?
300
Artists used this to make their art more realistic.
What is chiaroscuro?
300
A poem that tells of a person's journey from the underworld to heaven, and the horrible punishments for different sins.
What is "The Divine Comedy?"
400
These did not want emperors and kings to rule them.
What is the states of Italy?
400
Humanist scholars were curious about these subjects.
What is biology, medicine, and and astronomy?
400
These people soon adopted the customs of the nobles.
Who are the merchants?
400
These were painted in churches all over Italy.
What is frescoes?
400
Gutenberg produced the first European printed book, the Christian Bible, in this year.
What is 1455?
500
A city located on the northern coast of the Adriatic Sea in eastern Italy.
What is the city of Venice?
500
A famous humanist scholar who studied Roman writers such as Cicero and wrote biographies of famous Romans.
Who is Petrarch?
500
The sons and daughters of these two social classes were marrying each other.
Who are the nobles and merchants?
500
The first woman to paint major historical and religious scenes.
Who is Artemisia Gentileschi?
500
Half of the 40,000 books published by the year 1500 were these type of books.
What are religious works?
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