Renaissance Origins
Meaning of the term renaissance.
What is a rebirth?
The ways renaissance art differed from Medieval art.
What is realistic images, featured people-based works, and focus on everyday activities?
The study of the human body.
What is anatomy?
A famous playwriter during the Renaissance
Who was William Shakespeare?
Renaissance time period
What is 1300-1600?
A way of thought that focuses on human beings and their potential for achievement.
What is humanism?
The artist influenced by Michelangelo and Da Vinci
Who is Raphael?
A famous Renaissance artist, sculpture, painter, inventor, mathematician, and author. Famous for the Last Supper painting.
Who is Leonardo Da Vinci?
Became a political handbook and still answers many questions about power and government.
What is the Prince?
Two forms of government during the Renaissance
What is Signoria and Republicanism?
an ancient doctor who cut open animals and studied their parts to understand the human body.
Who is Galen?
Which Renaissance artist was the first to use oil paints?
Who is Jan van Eyck?
A person's optical point of view.
What is Perspective?
An important Renaissance thinker and author and held a public office position
Who is Machiavelli?
The types of texts that were translated
What is ancient Greek and Roman?
A wealthy family of bankers who were patrons and ruled in Florence.
Who are the Medici?
A famous Renaissance artist, painter, sculptor, architect, and poet. Painted the Sistine Chapel, and sculpted a statue of David.
Who is Michelangelo?
Johann Gutenburg invented this machine.
What is the Printing Press?
The author that wrote De Humani Corporis Fabrics
Who is Andreas Vesalius?
Birthplace of the Renaissance (city and country)
What is Florence Italy?
The Renaissance began in this century.
What is the 14th century?
The Renaissance man known for being a great thinker, painter, sculptor and inventor
Who is Leonardo Da Vinci
Contained the first correct information about the human body and helped advance our knowledge of human anatomy.
What is De Humani Corporis Fabrics?
14 lines with a strict rhythmic pattern
What is a Shakespearean sonnet?
The number of city-states during the Renaissance
What is 200?