Italian Renaissance
The intellectual movement that focussed on worldly, rather than religious, subjects to understand their times.
What is Humanism?
This type of paint was developed by the Flemish painter Jan van Eyck and was popular due to its vibrant colors and durability.
What is oil paint?
People became angry with this group's desire for worldly power and love of luxury.
What is the church (Roman Catholic Church)?
This English king wanted a male heir, so he asked the pope to annul his marriage to Catherine of Aragon. After 5 more wives he finally got a son, Edward.
Who was Henry VIII?
This Polish scientist developed the idea of a heliocentric universe in which the sun is the center.
Who was Copernicus?
The Italian family famous for banking and practically bankrolling the Italian Renaissance.
Who are the Medicis?
While the Italian Renaissance focussed on individual achievement and the arts as a secular movement, the northern Renaissance humanists wanted this reform.
What was religious and moral reformation?
This German priest wrote 95 Theses against the church's sale of indulgences.
Who was Martin Luther?
King Henry VIII took away lands from the Roman Catholic Church, gave the land to loyal aristocrats, and appointed himself the head of this church.
What is the Church of England or the Anglican Church?
This Italian scientist was the first to see the mountains on the moon, moons of Jupiter, and sunspots through a telescope.
Who was Galileo Galilei?
Artist, inventor, engineer. Painted the Mona Lisa. Drew sketches of flying machines and undersea boats.
Who was Leonardo da Vinci?
This English playwright and poet wrote over 37 plays, including A Midsummer Night's Dream, Richard III, Romeo & Juliet, Othelo, Macbeth.
Who was Shakespeare?
Luther's ideas became known as this type of religion or church.
What is Protestant?
This English queen restored unity, order, and stability to England by returning the land to Protestant rule but adopted some Catholic compromises.
Who was Elizabeth I?
The new scientific method relied on these two practices.
What are observation and experimentation?
Sculpted the famous statue David and painted the Sistine Chapel in Vatican City.
Who was Michelangelo?
This author made fun of medieval chivalry in his novel, Don Quixote.
Who is Cervantes?
Martin Luther translated the Bible into this language.
What is German?
This court was established by the Roman Catholic Church to root out heresies during the Middle Ages.
What is the Inquisition?
This English scientist discovered the idea of gravity and related it to how planets maintain orbits.
Who was Isaac Newton?
The building in the United States modeled after St. Peters Church in Rome (architect: Michelangelo).
What is the United States Capitol in Washington, D.C.?
What is the printing press?
His teachings of salvation through faith, the omnipotence of God, predestination led this man to establish a theocracy in Geneva, Switzerland.
Who was John Calvin?
Pope Paul III wanted to establish reforms in morality, to end papal corruption in this church.
What is the Roman Catholic Church?
This French scientist is well known for his statement, "I think, therefore I am."
Who is Descartes?