In the 1300s, Italian scholars began to study these ancient works.
What is Roman and Greek.
100
This person painted the Mona Lisa and The Last Supper.
Who is Leonardo da Vinci?
100
The everyday language people spoke in a region.
What is Vernacular?
100
In ancient Rome, power was often given to this person during a war or revolt
What is a dictator?
100
These states gained their wealth through trade.
What are Italian states?
200
A method of gaining knowledge through reason, not just through religious faith.
What is humanism?
200
This style of painting used light and shadows instead of stiff outlines to separate objects.
What is Chiaroscuro?
200
This is the first European printed book.
What is the Christian Bible?
200
These two groups in the Italian city-states formed a new kind of leadership.
Who are merchants and bankers?
200
By this time, when the renaissance was born, Italian cities had become very wealthy.
What is the 1300s?
300
This is the birthplace of the Renaissance.
What is Italy?
300
The period between 1490 and 1520 was the golden age of this type of painting.
What is Italian Renaissance?
300
In the early 1450's this person developed a printing press that used movable metal type.
Who is Johannes Gutenberg?
300
In Italy, old noble families formed ties of business and friendship with these people.
Who are wealthy merchants?
300
The gold coin of Florence.
What is florin?
400
People became this. In other words, they became more interested in worldly ideas and events, not just religious ones.
What is secular?
400
Northern artists began painting in this type of paint rather than using water-based paints. It provided richer colors and allowed changes to be made on the painted canvas.
What is oil paint?
400
This English writer wrote The Canterbury.
Who is Geoffrey Chaucer?
400
The ruler in Venice who ran the city.
What is a Duke?
400
The wealth and central location of this city attracted many artists, sculptors, writers, and architects.
What is Florence?
500
Florence lay on the banks of this river in central Italy.
What is the Arno River?
500
Albrecht Dürer was an important artist of the Northern Renaissance who is best known for his what.
What are engravings?
500
This is a poem written in the vernacular, it tells of a person's journey from hell to heaven. The poem describes the horrible punishments for different sins.
What is The Divine Comedy?
500
In Florence, this powerful family controlled the government for many years and used its wealth to support artists, architects, and writers.
Who is the Medici family?
500
Florence gained its wealth from making and trading this.