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This family of merchants and bankers lived in Florence. They were art patrons and political leaders.
Who are the Medici family?
What was one reason that the Renaissance began in Italy?
What was location (waterways) / merchants began to appreciate art / they had enough money to support the arts / a spirit of adventure / exposure to new ideas from other cultures?
What was the name of the invention that allowed new ideas to spread throughout Europe and who invented it?
What is Gutenberg's printing press?
The lady in this painting has a mysterious smile. What's the name of the painting?
What is The Mona Lisa?
This artist was very famous for his paintings of the Madonna, and the School of Athens
Who is Raphael?
What is humanism?
What is a cultural movement during the 14th to 17th centuries that emphasized the value of human potential and achievements?
A protest against the practices of the church that errupted in the Renaissance period.
What is the Protestant Reformation?
This painting showed Christ surrounded by his twelve disciples.
What is The Last Supper?
What did political thinkers such as Machiavelli emphasize?
What is Pragmatism? (Realism. A realistic understanding of politics and a realistic understanding of human nature. Some would argue a cynical understanding of human nature and politics.)
Name 2 famous works of art by Michelangelo
What is Sistine Chapel's ceiling, David?
Name 2 subjects that are part of the humanities?
What is Literature (Language Arts) / History (Social) / Philosphy / Art / Religious Studies?
Belief that God already knows if you're going to heaven or not before you're born.
What is Predestination?
How did perspective make art more realistic?
What is the use of horizontal and vertical lines to organize the painting creates a feeling of depth and three-dimensional properties?
Two people argued different leadership styles. Who are they, and what are their styles?
Who is Machiavelli? What is a leader that is focused on the best decision?
Who is More? What is a leader that emphasizes equity?
Who was known as The Father of Humanism?
Who is Petrarch?
What city did the Medici family support, and who are the two most well known figures they funded?
What is Florence / Who are Leonardo da Vinci & Michelangelo?
I ticked off the Catholic Church, but I believed that the Sun was in fact the center of the universe! (hint: I was exiled for it)
Who is Copernicus?
This is the term used in renaissance art as opposed to middle age art, included; shading, and images appear to be off in the distance by using perspective.
What is realism?
Contact with Asian and Islamic cultures introduced Europeans to new technologies, such as the compass and printing techniques, and ideas, like advanced mathematics and medicine.
What is Cultural Exchange?
What was Machiavelli's ideal ruler like?
What is a leader that was feared but not hated, respected but not loved that feel the ends justified the means?
What were the characteristics of the Italian Renaissance? Give two examples.
What is an interest in secular or human experience / interest in classical Greece and Rome's cultures / A belief in individual achievement / A spirit of adventure and a desire to discover new worlds and new ideas / increased trade / a commercial economy / a move to urban areas?
I was upset with the Church, so I wrote a book about how it should change. What is the book, and who am I?
Painting made on fresh, moist plaster (i.e Sistine Chapel's ceiling)
What is Fresco?
During the Colombian exchange what items went from the old world to the Americas, and Americas to the old world? List 4 items for each category.
What is Christianity, potatoes, maize, tomatoes and chocolate went to the old world?
What is horses, cattle, pigs, wheat, rice, and sugarcane went to the Americas?