Renaissance Art
TEAM QUESTION: A period of rebirth and creativity in art, writing, and thought from about 1300 to 1600 A.D., beginning in Italy and eventually spreading throughout Europe.
What is the renaissance?
The meaning of the French word, renaissance.
What is rebirth?
TEAM QUESTION: Classical humanist who used satire to criticize the Church.
Who was Desiderius Erasmus?
The everyday spoken language of the people
What is vernacular?
TEAM QUESTION: The century in which the renaissance began
What is the 14th century?
These three artists were from the Renaissance Art Period.
A. Picasso, Pollock, and Edgar Degas
B. Raphael, Michaelangelo, and Leonardo da Vinci
C. Frida Kahlo, Claude Monet, and Rembrandt
Who were Raphael, Michaelangelo, and Leonardo da Vinci?
TEAM QUESTION: Renewed interest in these cultures was characteristic of the Renaissance?
What is Greek and Roman?
The quintessential Renaissance Man; he was a painter, sculptor, scientist, engineer, and inventor
Who was Leonardo da Vinci?
TEAM QUESTION: Definition: Concerned with worldly rather than spiritual matters; opposite of religious/sacred
What is secular?
The three new learnings of the renaissance
What is humanism, secularism, and individualism?
The artist who painted the Sistine Chapel.
Who was Michaelangelo?
This invention helped the spread of literacy
What is the printing press?
TEAM QUESTION: Erasmus's friend; recipient of Praise of Folly; Wrote Utopia, about an ideal community or society possessing a perfect socio-politico-legal system.
Who was Sir Thomas More?
An intellectual movement in which thinkers focused on human potential and achievements
What is humanism?
The family who became the major patrons of the Renaissance in Italy
What was The Medici family?
TEAM QUESTION: The architect of the famous dome in Florence.
Who was Brunelleschi?
What is Florence, Italy?
English playwright of late Renaissance who wrote comedies, tragedies, and histories.
Who was William Shakespeare?
An artistic technique that creates the appearance of three dimensions on a flat surface.
What is perspective?
TEAM QUESTION: This event in 1453 gave the Renaissance a large boost as Eastern scholars brought Greek texts to Italy.
What is the fall of Constantinople?
Raphael blended Renaissance and classical figures in this painting?
What is "The School of Athens"?
TEAM QUESTION: The name of the Renaissance as it spread to the rest of Europe.
What is the Northern Renaissance?
German painter and printmaker of the Renaissance who was convinced for Reformation ideas before he died.
Who was Albrecht Dürer?
TEAM QUESTION: If a utopia is an imaginary, ideal society, this is its antonym.
What is dystopia?
People like Petrarch and Dante attempted to bring together the ideas of what two things
What is pagan culture and Christianity?