The Renaissance
Which wealthy family ruled Florence?
What is the Medici family?
Who made the play Romeo and Juliet?
William Shakespear
Used in ancient and medieval times where they freshly painted in plastered walls.
Fresco
Who improved the Telescope?
Galileo Galilei
What were the five Italian city-states?
What is Florence, Venice, Milan, Naples, and the Papal States?
Who made the statue of David and painted the 16th Chapel?
Raphael
What effect did it have on the Catholic Church?
People started to question religion and decrease faith.
What were the 3 main ideas of the scientific revolution?
A new understanding of the world, Logical thought, and Scientific method.
Who founded humanism?
Petrarch
This Renaissance artist was talented in many fields other than art. He was a sculptor, a mathematician, an inventor, and a scientist.
Leonardo da Vinci
A kind of paint that dried too quickly in fresco that did not allow painters to change or correct what they had painted.
Tempera
Who made observations that proved Copernicus's views of the universe?
Galileo Galilei
What is the birthplace of the Renaissance?
Florence
Who painted many frescoes such as the Sistine Madona?
Raphael
Discovery of how to achieve perspective (the impression of depth and distance on the flat surface of the painting.
Realism
How did the Protestant Reformation lead to the scientific revolution?
Corruption of the church and the beginnings of nationalism.
What was the goal of a Renaissance education?
To make well-rounded individuals, skilled, and knowledgeable in many areas of learning.
Who came up with the heliocentric model of the Solar System that placed the Sun rather than the Earth at the center?
Who is Nicolaus Copernicus?
French king who supported Leonardo da Vinci in the arts.
Francis I
Who is the father of the Scientific Method?
Francis Bacon