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This man is considered the greatest of the English Renaissance authors and has wrote things like Romeo & Juliet and Hamlet.
Who is Shakespeare?
This key idea of the Renaissance is the belief where man is at the center of the universe.
What is Humanism?
This is the most popular artwork of the Renaissance and was painted by Leonardo da Vinci.
What is the Mona Lisa?
Humanist educators emphasized this type of activity in their schools. This included javelin throwing, archery, swimming, and wrestling.
What is physical education?
People from the Renaissance studied the classics from Ancient Rome and this other place.
What is Greece?
This powerful and popular family was wealthy from banking and ruled Florence behind the scenes.
What is Medici?
This is the idea of drawing/painting something that creates the illusion of depth on a 2D surface.
What is linear perspective?
These paintings which were commonly painted by Raphael depicted Mary, the mother of Jesus.
What are Madonnas?
This type of literature was popularized by Dante Alighieri and Christine de Pizan and is the idea of writing in people's native language rather than only writing in Latin.
Rome was the capital of this Italian city-state that was filled with war since the French and Spanish were trying to take over the territory for years.
What is Naples and the Papal States?
This artist was the third master of art along with Michaelangelo and Leonardo da Vinci.
Who is Raphael?
This is a way of painting art where you put watercolor on a fresh plaster.
What is a fresco?
This masterpiece painted by Raphael shows many philosophers from different times in history learning from each other all in one frame.
What is the School of Athens?
These were the subjects that were taught in Humanist schools that educators thought everyone should know.
What are the liberal arts?
This Italian city-state was very wealthy from their shipbuilding industry and it was a republic with an elected leader called a doge.
What is Venice?
This man is considered the father of humanism.
Who is Petrarch?
This idea means the non religious spread of new ideas.
What is secular?
This marble sculpture created by Donatello in 1415 is a figure of a Christian Saint.
What is Saint George?
This is Dante's masterpiece and is a long narrative poem that shows the soul's journey to understand how to get God's love.
What is the Divine Comedy?
What is Florence?
This man was responsible for the creation of the printing press.
Who is Gutenberg?
This idea means that the goal justifies what you did to get there. It encompasses the beliefs of Niccolo Machiavelli who was known for his lack of morality and care for how people felt.
What is the ends justifies the means?
Filippo Brunelleschi designed this church in Florence and has an open and airy space that was designed for human needs, not divine ones.
What is the Basilica of San Lorenzo?
What is the Book of the City of Ladies?
In the fourteenth century, people of the Visconti family established themselves as dukes of this Italian city-state.
What is Milan?