vocabulary
vocabulary
Artists/writers
Renaissance
100
The great revival of learning, art, and literature in Europe
What is the Renaissance?
100
An ideal society
What is utopia?
100
He painted the Mona Lisa
Who is Da Vinci?
100
The country where the Renaissance began
What is Italy?
200
An intellectual movement that celebrated the accomplishments of people.
What is Humanism?
200
The artform where the artist cuts a design into metal and then may use the created plate to make prints
What is engraving?
200
He painted the Sistine Chapel
Who is Michelangelo?
200
List some of the ideals of the Renaissance
what is: people should take control of lives, interest in learning for its own sake, interest in ancient Greek and Roman writings, use wealth to enhance self or city, freedom of individual, positive attitude about human body, be curious and celebrate action (celebrating "doing")
300
A wealthy supporter of the arts
What is a patron?
300
Renaissance
What is Reawakening or the great revival of art, literature, and learning in Europe?
300
Reasons why Da Vinci was called a "renaissance man"
What is he was a painter, sculptor, mathematician, archietct, and scientist?
300
This would occur after visitors to Italy returned home
What is they would share their respect for Italy's ancient civilization and artistic discoveries home with them?
400
A technique used to give drawings a 3-D effect
What is perspective?
400
Humanism
What is the idea that the accomplishments of people should be celebrated. OR an intellectual movement that stemmed from the study of classical literature?
400
He is considered to be the greatest playwright of all time
Who is Shakespeare?
400
Explain how the Renaissance was able to spread throughout Europe
What is the invention of the Gutenberg press allowed new ideas to be shared with many more people (since books no longer written out by hand)
500
The use of ridicule to expose misbehavior of others
What is satire?
500
a 14-line poem
What is a sonnet?
500
He developed new standards for realism in painting
Who is Jan van Eyck?
500
Explain what happened during the Middle Ages that helped encourage the Renaissance
What is the Black Death made people rethink their current attitudes about themselves and how the Catholic Church influenced their daily life? People began to think independently?
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