Renaissance Potpourri
Cities and Families
Humanism
Renaissance Artists & Figures
100
This terrible event in the 1300s caused Europeans to think differently about life and mortality, thereby influencing the Renaissance.
What was the Black Death or Bubonic Plague?
100
This Italian family were very influential in the Renaissance.
Who were the Medici family?
100
This Christian theologian and scholar said reason, the natural world, and God could all coexist.
Who was Thomas Aquinas?
100
Renaissance art employed perspective, self portraits, and detailed sculptures of humans. It replaced this era's art, which was more gloomy and only showed clunky, supernatural figures.
What was Medieval art?
200
The word renaissance means this word in the French language.
What is "rebirth"?
200
This city's strong military, artists, and vast trade connections made it the most important city of the Renaissance. Sometimes also called "birthplace of the Renaissance".
What was Florence?
200
This movement was the most important part of the Renaissance. It showed that studying science and reason were noble pursuits.
What was humanism?
200
The representation of three-dimensional objects or spaces in two dimensional artworks.
What is perspective?
300
These two Classical cultures' art, literature, architecture, and learning were mimicked by those living in the Renaissance.
What were the ancient Greek and Roman cultures?
300
Someone who gave financial support or aid to an artist or organization.
Who was a patron?
300
This is the self portrait of which Renaissance painter/inventor?
Who was Leonard da Vinci?
300
Perhaps the most famous Renaissance artist, he sculpted this statue of David.
Who was Michelangelo?
400
This aspect of the Italian Peninsula made it ideal for the movement of resources and knowledge.
What was its central location?
400
The Papal States was the area where this leader of the Catholic Church lived.
Who was the pope?
400
The term given to a well rounded person. Someone who does many things exceptionally well, like Leonardo da Vinci.
What is a Renaissance Man or Renaissance Woman?
400
This playwright is considered the "father of modern English".
Who was William Shakespeare?
500
The spreading of a cultural trait, idea, or innovation from one geographic area to other geographic areas.
What is cultural diffusion?
500
This work of art was was commissioned by Pope Leo X (a Medici family member) and painted by Michelangelo.
What was the Sistine Chapel or the frescoes on the Sistine Ceiling?
500
Named after humanism, this broad academic field includes the study of languages, literature, philosophy, history, archaeology, anthropology, geography, law, politics, religion, and art.
What are the humanities?
500
This famous Renaissance painting was made by Leonardo da Vinci.
What is the Mona Lisa?