Vocabulary
Black Death
Causes of Renaissance
Renaissance Artists
Renaissance Literature
100
This term means to value human needs and wants rather than divine religious matters
What is Humanism?
100
What is another name for the Black Death?
What is Bubonic Plague?
100
Renaissance means....
What is rebirth?
100
Name the 4 major Renaissance Artists known as the Ninja Turtles
Leonardo Di Vinci, Michelangelo, Donatello, Raphael
100
True or False: Renaissance Literature began examining the traditional teachings of the church and became critical of the church
True
200
This term means relating to worldly things or to things that are not regarded as religious, spiritual, or sacred
What is Secular
200
Where did the Bubonic Plague originate?
What is Asia
200
The Renaissance was a rebirth in ________ and _________
What is art and literature?
200
Who is known as the Renaissance Man?
Who is Leonardo Di Vinci?
200
Who printed the first complete version of the bible by using his invention of the printing press?
Who is Johann Gutenberg?
300
This terms means the support, encouragement, privilege, or financial aid from an organization or individual.
What is Patron
300
What animals/insects carried the plague?
Rats/Fleas
300
Italy was divided in more than 200 city states. One of these became a very important banking and trading center for many wealthy merchants and businessmen. What is the most important city-state of the Renaissance?
What is Florence, Italy?
300
The School of Athens was painted by this Renaissance artist
Who is Raphael?
300
I am a English Renaissance poet who wrote over 37 plays including Hamlet, Julius Caesar and Romeo and Juliet. I wrote about humanist topics such as love, betrayal and death. Who am I?
Who is William Shakespeare?
400
This terms means the language or dialect spoken by people of a particular county or region
What is Vernacular?
400
How many Europeans were estimated to be killed from the Black Death?
1/3 of European Population; 50-100 million people
400
This wealthy banking family controlled Florence for many years and used their money to be patrons of the arts to beautify the city. Who is this family?
Who is the Medici Family?
400
Michelangelo created this painting on this ceiling known as
What is Sistine Chapel?
400
Explain one of the reasons of why was the invention of the printing press influential to Renaissance artists and writers?
- with more books available, more people learned to read
- began to spread new ideas across Europe
- Christianity began to spread more rapidly due to access to the bible
500
This term means individual humans are capable of great accomplishments.
What is Individualism?
500
Name at least 3 symptoms of the Black Death illness
Black spots on the body, high fever, chills, extreme weakness, abdominal pain, diarrhea and vomiting, internal bleeding
500
Who is known as the Father of Humanism?
Who is Francesco Petrarch?
500
How was Donatello's sculpture of "The David" different from Michelangelo's?
Donatello made his out of bronze; Michelangelo made it out of marble
500
I wrote the book called Utopia which describes an ideal society of both men and women living in peace. Who am I?
Who is Thomas More?
600
This term means a painting technique that gives the appearance of 3 dimensions
What is Perspective
600
What is the name of the technique that physicians were using as cure to treat the illness?
What is Bloodletting?
600
During the Italian Renaissance, people began studying humanistic ideals, writings and arts from two ancient civilizations. What are those civilizations?
Ancient Greek and Roman
600
Name the two famous paintings that Leonardo Di Vinci created
What is Mona Lisa; The Last Supper?
600
Shakespeare often wrote phrases such as "In a pickle, Woe is Me, Love is blind" as a way to express a figurative speech. These phrases are known as_________
What is Idioms?
700
a city that with its surrounding territory forms an independent state.
city-states
700
What is the nursery rhyme that is commonly associated with the Black Death?
Ring around the Rosies
700
Which Renaissance thinker suggested that "one should do good when possible and do evil when necessary"
Machiavelli
700
Explain the difference between Medieval art and Renaissance art?
Medieval art focuses more on church and salvation; Renaissance Art is focused on humanism and individualism
700
Describe a reason why people love to continue to read Shakespeare in modern day
His plays are an example of Humanism =they focused on human problems like love, death, and betrayal instead of religion