Italian writer; wrote "The Divine Comedy" and "The Inferno"
Who is Dante
100
Italian painter & inventor; painted the "Mona Lisa" and "The Last Supper"
Who is Leonardo DaVinci
100
Means "rebirth"; cultural movement in Italy and in Northern Europe of great creativity in art, writing, and thought
What is the Renaissance
100
Artistic style that aims to represent people and things as they really exists
What is realism
100
German artist; created a woodcut of "The Four Horseman of Apocalypse"
Who is Durer
200
English poet & playwright; wrote "Hamlet" and "Romeo & Juliet"
Who is Shakespeare
200
Italian painter & sculptor; sculpted "David & Moses" and painted the ceiling of the Sistine Chapel
Who is Michelangelo
200
A man who excels in many aspects of life
What is Renaissance man
200
A technique used by artists and architects to give a flat surface the feeling of space and depth
What is linear perspective
200
German inventor; designed a movable type printing press
Who is Gutenberg
300
Spanish writer; wrote "Don Quixote"
Who is Cervantes
300
Italian painter; painted "The School of Athens"
Who is Raphael
300
Wealthy people who encouraged artists to create and supported them financially
What are patrons
300
An ideal, imaginary place
What is utopia
300
Wealthy banking family and renowned patron of the arts in Florence, Italy
Who is Medici
400
Italian political scientist; wrote "The Prince"
Who is Machiavelli
400
Italian architect; created the dome (Duomo) on the church of San Lorenzo in Florence
Who is Brunelleschi
400
The new way of thinking during the time of the Renaissance (this was based on the study of Greek and Roman classical works, where people were free to pursue his or her own goals)
What is Humanism
400
The belief in the importance of the individual, as opposed to the larger community
What is individualism
400
Machine that pressed paper against a full tray of inked movable type
What is printing press
500
Italian priest and philosopher; proponent of natural law and the co-existence of faith and reason (used reason to prove the existence of God)
Who is St. Thomas Aquinas
500
Flemish painter; created "The Peasant Dance"
Who is Brueghel
500
Non-religious; the view that religion need not be the center of human affairs