In the beginning...
This movement, meaning "rebirth", lasted from about 1300 AD to 1600 AD
Renaissance
This intellectual movement focused on human potential, creativity, and achievements.
Humanism
This style of art included 3 dimensional drawings/paintings and life-like sculptures with expressions, posture, and personality, and became a lasting impact.
Realism
This practice of allowing people to "pay off" their sins was one of the main problems people had with the Catholic Church.
Selling Indulgences
The inventor of the printing press.
Johannes Gutenberg
This country was (and is) home to the city and former empire of Rome.
Italy
This was someone who supported/financed artists by buying their work, commissioning artwork to be made, or started museums for the public.
Patron of the arts
This Elizabethan Age author focused on the human soul and all its potential in his plays and poems, which we still read today.
William Shakespeare
This is the name for the list of formal grievances Martin Luther nailed to the door of the Catholic Church in Germany.
95 Theses
The English King who split from the Pope just so he could marry as many women as he wanted.
King Henry VIII
These territories, made up of a central city trading hub and its surrounding countryland, were a perfect place for the Renaissance to start.
City-states in Italy
A man who was very skilled and educated in all areas of study.
Renaissance Man
History, philosophy, and literature are all studies that fall under this area of study that became a lasting impact of the Renaissance.
This action taken by the Catholic Church to eliminate any literature it deemed a threat was a response to the Protestant Reformation, and was part of the Counter-Reformation.
Burning books
Finish this sentence: Renaissance women were expected to inspire art, but...
not create it
This class of Italian citizens worked to earn their high status in society, and helped make the Renaissance possible by funding artists.
Wealthy merchant class
This term came to describe anyone belonging to a religion that was NOT the Catholic Church.
Protestant
Name 3 famous Italian painters to come out of the Renaissance period.
Leonardo Da Vinci, Michelangelo, Donatello, Raphael Sanzio, Sofonisba Anguissola
This famous Queen of England was a huge patron of the arts and also founded the Anglican Church, in which she mixed Catholic traditions and Protestant beliefs.
Queen Elizabeth I
Key figure of the Reformation who brought more order to Luther's movement and influences many of the Protestant religions' beliefs, even today.
John Calvin
Finish this sentence: Unlike it was under the Roman Empire, life in the Middle Ages were so drab and unartistic-- during the Renaissance, people wanted to return to....
The classics/classical, refined culture & art of Rome/Greece.
This adjective describes the general focus of society, as it shifted away from exclusively religious themes.
Secular
In this book by famous author Machiavelli, he advises rulers to be selfish, crafty, and deceitful to their people, in order to be politically effective.
The Prince
This group pushed for equal education of boys and girls during the Renaissance period.
Christian Humanists
The new religious order of well-trained men who were sent out to found schools, convert people to Catholicism, and stop the spread of Protestantism.
The Jesuits