Origins
Southern Renaissance
Southern Renaissance Art
Northern Renaissance
Northern Renaissance Art
100
The European peninsula where the Renaissance began.
What is the Italian peninsula or Italy?
100
The classical civilizations that served as a reminder and inspiration of man's potential for the Southern Renaissance.
Who were the ancient Greeks and Romans?
100
The Greek ideals of proportion of the human body as illustrated below in Leonardo da Vinci's Vitruvian Man.
What is the Golden Section?
100
The technological development that led to the facilitation / spread of the Northern Renaissance ideas.
What is Johann Gutenberg's printing press?
100
The characteristics that were unique to Northern Renaissance paintings.
What are superb details, vibrant colors, and / or use of oil based paints.
200
The city-state that is home to the Renaissance.
What is Florence?
200
The Medieval series of "holy wars" that spurred a revival of trade between the Middle East and Europe. The trade, facilitated by Italy, was a cause for the development of the Southern Renaissance.
What were the Crusades?
200
The Renaissance artistic development of realistic depth illustrated below by Raphael's School of Athens.
What is perspective?
200
The name of the astronomer and his scientific concept depicted in the painting below.
Who is Nicolaus Copernicus and what is his Heliocentric Theory?
200
The Dutch artist who painted the The Arnolfini Portrait pictured below.
Who is Jan Van Eyck?
300
The body of water that provided the means for the revival of trade that would foster the rise of the Renaissance.
What is the Mediterranean Sea?
300
The Florentine patron of the high Renaissance art pictured below.
Who is Lorenzo de Medici?
300
The artistic theme portrayed below in Raphael's painting.
What is a Madonna?
300
His development and use of Calculus enabled him to discover the Universal Laws of Gravitation and the Three Laws of Motion.
Who is Sir Isaac Newton?
300
The English monarch painted below by the German painter Hans Holbein the Younger.
Who is King Henry VIII?
400
The ideological driving force behind Renaissance society whose secular approach positively saw potential in mankind's abilities and intellect.
What is humanism?
400
The source(s) behind the growth of Florentine wealth that would patronize the arts of the Southern Renaissance.
What is trade and / or banking?
400
The artistic theme represented in Michelangelo's sculpture below.
What is a Pieta?
400
The name of the astronomer and his scientific concept depicted in the picture below.
Who is Johannes Kepler and what is his discovery of the Laws of Planetary Motion?
400
The Dutch artist who painted Christ in the Storm on the Lake of Galilee pictured below.
Who is Rembrandt?
500
A Medieval intellectual movement of the High and Late Middle Ages whose roots led to the Renaissance.
What is Scholasticism?
500
The Renaissance literary book that describes the characteristics and qualities of the "all sided" ideal Renaissance man.
What is Baldassare Castiglione's Book of the Courtier?
500
It is a medium of art depicted below in Masaccio's paintings in the Brancacci Chapel.
What is a Fresco?
500
The Northern Renaissance Christian Humanist whose book, In Praise of Folly, satirized the abuses and corruptions that had crept into the Church.
Who is Desiderius Erasmus?
500
The identifying feature of the painting below that connects it to its Dutch painter.
What is the diagonal play of light and / or muted colors.