Terms
Non-religious, focused on worldly life rather than the church.
What is secular?
(DBL Score) The "Father of Humanism".
Who is Petrarch?
(DBL Score) Original Medici leader, major patron of Renaissance artists and father of Cosimo.
Who is Giovanni de Medici?
(Triple Score) Painter known for The Birth of Venus and mythological themes.
Who is Sandro Botticelli?
(DBL Score) Political thinker who wrote The Prince about power and leadership.
Who is Niccolo Machiavelli?
(Triple Score) Artistic style that shows people and objects as they truly appear.
What is realism?
(DBL Score) A Renaissance belief focusing on human potential, achievement, and classical learning.
What is humanism?
(Triple Score) Founder of the Medici political dynasty in Florence and supporter of the arts.
Who is Cosimo de Medici?
Humanist scholar who criticized church corruption and promoted education.
Who is Desiderius Erasmus?
(DBL Score) Renaissance painter famous for The School of Athens and idealized human figures.
Who is Raphael?
(DBL Score) The everyday language spoken by ordinary people.
What is vernacular?
(DBL Score) A period of rebirth in art, learning, architecture, philosophy, and culture in Europe from 1300–1600 inspired by ancient Greece and Rome
What is the Renaissance?
(Triple Score) A Medici-supported former pirate who became Pope John XXIII.
Who is Baldassare Cossa?
(DBL Score) Scientist who supported heliocentrism using the telescope and scientific observation.
Who is Galileo Galilai?
Sculptor known for realistic statues, including David in bronze.
Who is Donatello?
Wealthy people who financially supported artists, writers, and scholars.
What are patrons?
Birthplace and cultural center of the Renaissance.
What is Florence, Italy?
(DBL Score) A powerful banking family that ruled Florence, patrons of Renaissance artists, and became known as "God's Bankers".
Who are the Medici?
(DBL Score) Scientist who proposed that the sun, not Earth, is the center of the universe.
Who is Nicolaus Coppernicus?
(DBL Score) Renaissance artist who sculpted David and painted the Sistine Chapel ceiling.
Who is Michelangelo Buonarroti?
An art technique that creates the illusion of depth by making distant objects appear smaller.
What is linear perspective?
The peak of Renaissance art from 1490–1527 marked by balance and realism.
What is the High Renaissance?
(DBL Score) Commissioned by the Medici, Filippo Brunelleschi is known best for these two things.
What is designed & built the dome of the Florence Cathedral and he developed linear perspective?
(DBL Score) English writer famous for plays and sonnets exploring human nature including Romeo & Juliet.
Who is William Shakespeare?
A Renaissance “genius” known for art, science, and inventions; painted the Mona Lisa.
Who is Leonardo da Vinci?