Artists
Who was the original "Renaissance Man", who was talented in art, science, engineering, and painted one of the worlds most famous paintings, the Mona Lisa?
Leonardo daVinci
What is the artistic innovation that made pictures look three-dimensional, like real life?
The document Martin Luther nailed to the church door with his grievances is know as...
the 95 Theses.
Who was the German Catholic monk who started the Protestant Reformation?
Martin Luther
What is the idea that religion does not need to be the focus of life.
Secularism
What Renaissance master painted the ceiling of the Sistine Chapel and sculpted the Pieta?
Michelangelo
What does excommunicated mean?
To be kicked out of the Church.
Who invented the movable-type printing press?
Johannes Gutenburg
The creation of the moveable type printing press resulted in...
more books and a better educated populaton.
Humanism
Who was the brilliant English writer who wrote histories, tragedies, comedies, and sonnets?
William Shakespeare
Where did the "new" ideas for Renaissance architecture some from?
classic Greek and Roman buildings
What kind of corruption was Luther seeing within the Church?
Paying for indulgences
unqualified priests
lavish lifestyles of popes and priests
Who was the former Spanish soldier who set up a militant order of priests to defend the faith?
St. Ignatius of Loyola
When books are written in the common language, like Italian, instead of Latin, we say this is written in the ...
vernacular
What is the belief that one person is more important than the community?
Individualism
What is the term meaning everything is balanced in the composition and pleasing to the eye?
proportion
What are the differing opinions on how you achieve salvation in the Catholic and Lutheran churches?
Catholics said you needed faith and good works. Lutherans said you got salvation from faith alone.
St. Theresa of Avilla
What is the belief that decisions should be made with science and careful thinking?
Rationalism
What famous Renaissance artist designed the dome of St. Peter's Basilica?
Michelangelo
patron
What is the difference between how the Catholic Church says where you should learn religion from and where the Lutheran Church says you should learn it from.
The Catholic Church says you should learn from the bible and our faith traditions passed down. Lutherans believe everything can be learned from the bible.
What family of wealthy wool merchants and bankers were patrons to some of the greatest Renaissance painters and sculptors?
The Medicis
What is the movement of new Christian churches that were created as part of the Reformation?
Protestantism
Name one author, other than Shakespeare, who wrote enduring literature during the Renaissance.
Dante Alighieri, Geoffrey Chaucer, etc.
Who designed the dome of the duomo (cathedral) in Florence?
Filippo Brunelleschi
What does John Calvin say you need to do to be saved?
Nothing. He says that God has predetermined who will be saved and there is nothing you can do to change that.
Who was the English King who was refused a divorce from the Pope so he started his own church and made himself the head of it?
King Henry VIII
What is the idea that people should be able to select their style of government and how their country will be run?
Self-determinism
(What did you expect from a 600? This will be dealt with in a coming unit.)