Michaelangelo
This and that
Writers, Thinkers and their works
Renaissance Technology
Leonardo da Vinci
100
Michaelangelo is from this country.
What is Italy?
100
"Renaissance" is a French word meaning this:
What is "rebirth"?
100
The Renaissance came more than a century late to northern European countries such as England. The Elizabethan era in the second half of the 16th century is usually regarded as the height of the island nation's Renaissance, and it's most famous writer is this man.
Who is Shakespeare?
100
Like the microscope, this instrument was invented in Holland in 1608 and bent light to view a desired image. Galileo Galilei used it to develop his theories and ideas about Earth and its relation to the stars and the rest of the universe.
What is the telescope?
100
This is Leonardo da Vinci's most famous painting.
What is the Mona Lisa?
200
Michaelangelo is most famous for painting the ceiling of this building in Rome.
What is the Sistine Chapel?
200
The Renaissance began in Italy in this century:
What is the fifteenth century?
200
This leader of the Protestant Reformation was first a monk who began to ask questions about faith that put him at odds with the Pope.
Who is Martin Luther?
200
Prior to the invention of the printing press, books in Europe were painstakingly and slowly copied by hand, mainly in these places inhabited by monks or nuns living as a community.
What is a monastery?
200
This painting by Leonardo da Vinci is the most reproduced religious painting of all time.
What is The Last Supper?
300
Michaelangelo's most famous sculpture is a statue of this Old Testament figure.
Who is David?
300
This city,(now Istanbul) and founded by the Roman emperor Constantine, was the capital of the eastern Roman empire. Scholars in this city kept the learning of Greece and Rome alive throughout the middle ages. It was this ancient learning that fueled the beginning of the Renaissance in Italy.
What is Constantinople?
300
The author of this 1513 work titled, The Prince, is well known due to his book's general theme that leaders are justified in using immoral means to achieve glory and survival.
Who is Niccolo Machiavelli?
300
He invented a printing press with moveable type in 1430. It is credited not only for a revolution in the production of books, but also for fostering rapid development in the sciences, arts and religion through the transmission of texts.
Who is Guttenberg? (Johaness Guttenberg)
300
This world-famous drawing by Leonardo is based on the correlations of ideal human proportions. A famous architect described the human figure as being the principal source of proportion among the Classical orders of architecture. Leonardo's drawing is traditionally named in honor of the architect. Contents [hide]
What is Vitruvian Man?
400
Michaelangelo designed the dome of this famous building in the Vatican.
What is St. Peter's Basilica?
400
The Renaissance saw the beginning of this philosophy, which focuses on human values and concerns, attaching prime importance to human rather than divine or supernatural matters.
What is humanism?
400
Nicolaus Copernicus was a Renaissance astronomer and the first person who is credited with understanding that this, and not the Earth, is the center of our universe.
What is the sun?
400
This is the world's first book printed using movable type. Widespread access to this book eventually led to a tremendous change in Europe's and the world's religious landscape.
What is the Bible? (the Guttenberg Bible).
400
Since Leonardo wrote in cursive with his left hand, from right to left, it is easier to read his journals by using this device.
What is a mirror?
500
There are three main subjects in Michaelangelo's most famous painting: This, the Downfall of Man, and the Promise of Salvation.
What is the Creation?
500
This Italian term, "Uomo Universale," comes from the ideal that it was possible to acquire a universal learning in order to develop one's potential.
What is "universal man"?
500
Petrarch, often called "the Father of Humanism" famously wrote love poems in this fourteen-line form.
What is the sonnet?
500
In the beginning of the Renaissance time period, we can see the first of these devices developed in Florenece, Italy, in 1410. Before this time, mechanical clocks were large, fixed devices. The use of springs made it possible to carry these devices around with you.
What is a watch?
500
Leonardo's formal training in this study of the human body enabled him to become a master at drawing or painting muscles, tendons and other visible physical features.
What is anatomy?
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