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100
This intellectual movement sought to revive classical Greek and Roman learning and focused on human achievement.
What is humanism?
100
Michelangelo painted this famous ceiling for Pope Julius II.
What is the Sistine Chapel?
100
These wealthy popes contributed to the arts but also caused scandal through nepotism and corruption.
Who are the Renaissance popes?
100
A term that means "rebirth."
What is the Renaissance?
100
This has the largest interior of any church in the world.
What is St. Peter's Basilica?
200
This city in Italy is considered the birthplace of the Renaissance.
What is Florence?
200
This wealthy Florentine family famously patronized artists like Botticelli and Leonardo da Vinci.
Who are the Medici?
200
This fundraising practice, heavily abused during the Renaissance, involved paying for the reduction of time in purgatory.
What is the sale of indulgences?
200
This period immediately preceded the Renaissance.
What are the Middle Ages?
200
A technique used to create the illusion of three-dimensional depth and space on a two-dimensional surface.
What is perspective?
300
This scholar produced a Greek New Testament that helped scholars read scripture in its original language.
Who is Erasmus of Rotterdam?
300
This composer reformed Catholic Church music and is called the 'father of polyphony.'
Who is Palestrina?
300
Pope Julius II commissioned this famous church, partly funded by the sale of indulgences.
What is St. Peter's Basilica?
300
These ancient civilizations were rediscovered during the Renaissance.
What were Egypt, Greece, and Rome?
300
Who sculpted the Pieta?
Who was Michelangelo?
400
This invention by Johannes Gutenberg allowed ideas to spread rapidly across Europe.
What is the printing press?
400
Michelangelo designed the famous dome of this great church in Rome.
What is St. Peter's Basilica?
400
This practice, where popes gave church offices to family members, was a major abuse of the Renaissance era.
What is nepotism?
400
Name this painting.
What is the Birth of Venus?
400
A Church body made up of all the cardinals whose function it is to advise the Pope about Church matters and to elect a successor following the death of a Pope.
What is the College of Cardinals?
500
Renaissance humanists believed studying grammar, rhetoric, history, and philosophy could improve human beings. This program of study had this name.
What are the humanities?
500
Filippo Brunelleschi engineered the dome of this cathedral in Florence.
What is the Duomo (Florence Cathedral / Santa Maria del Fiore)?
500
The sale of indulgences to fund the rebuilding of St. Peter's Basilica was the immediate spark for this world-historical event.
What is the Protestant Reformation?
500
He was known as the "Apostle of Rome."
Who was St. Philip Neri?
500
Pope Alexander VI belonged to this wealthy and powerful family.
Who are the Borgias?