Renaissance Art
Renaissance Basics
Renaissance People
Renaissance Vocab
Renaissance Writings
100
Who painted the Mona Lisa and the Last Supper?
Leonardo da Vinci
100
What does renaissance mean?
rebirth
100
What were the wealthy people that sponsored art and literature called?
Patrons
100
Definition: a rebirth or revival
Renaissance
100
The writer of Romeo and Juliet and Hamlet.
Who is Shakespeare?
200
Name at least 3 artists from the Italian Renaissance
Raphael, Michelangelo, and Leonardo da Vinci
Also accept: Petrarch and Machiavelli
200
The Renaissance was a period when people looked towards these places for inspiration.
Ancient Greek and Rome
200
Who painted the Mona Lisa?
Leonardo Davinci
200
An intellectual movement in which thinkers studied classical texts and focused on human potential and achievements
humanism
200
He wrote The Prince, which explained how to be a good leader even if that meant lying to the people.
Who is Machiavelli?
300
Who painted the Sistine Chapel and sculpted the David?
Michelangelo
300
What was the impact of the invention of the printing press? (name at least 2)
It helped spread Renaissance ideas and people became more literate
300
He was the father of humanism.
Who is Petrarch?
300
An artistic technique that creates the appearance of three dimensions on a flat surface.
perspective
300
Sir Thomas More wrote about the ideal or perfect society in this book.
What is Utopia?
400
What famous painter from Germany painted this....
Albrecht Durer
400
Humanism, which was intellectually what The Renaissance was based on, was all about __________.
Human potential and achievement
400
Who invented the printing press?
Johann Guttenberg
400
The act of questioning everything.
What is skepticism?
400
Petrarch, the father of humanism, was known for his...
What is poetry?
500
Explain perspective.
Making images look 3D on a 2D surface
500
They were the major family of the Italian Renaissance movement (first 'mafia' family)
The Medici family
500
He was a Flemish artist of the Northern Renaissance famous for his painting of the Arnolfini Wedding.
Who is Jan van Eyck?
500
Meaning concerned with worldly matters instead of spiritual ones.
What is secular?
500
Erasmus wrote about religious hypocrites in this book.
What is Praise of the Folly?