Art and Architecture
He painted the frescoes in the Sistine Chapel.
Who is Michelangelo?
This explorer's trip was financed by King Ferdinand and Queen Isabella of Spain.
Who is Christopher Columbus?
He was an Italian painter, draftsman, sculptor, architect, and engineer whose genius, perhaps more than that of any other figure, epitomized the Renaissance humanist ideal.
Who was da Vinci?
This family of merchants and bankers lived in Florence. They were art patrons and political leaders.
Who were the Medicis?
Upset by the Church selling indulgences, he wrote 95 theses.
Who is Martin Luther?
This is possibly Leonardo da Vinci's most famous painting.
What is the Mona Lisa?
He was a Portuguese sea captain who led five Spanish ships and 251 men in the first voyage around the World
Who was Magellan?
This Scientist Mathematician proposed that the Sun was stationary in the center of the universe.
Who was Copernicus?
Government by the people through elected officials
What is democracy?
This was an intellectual movement typified by a revived interest in the classical world and studies which focussed not on religion but on what it is to be human.
What is humanism?
This artist was very famous for his paintings of the Madonna and the School of Athens.
Who is Raphael?
This Englishman was famous as a seaman, explorer and a pirate, sailing around the World, raiding the Spanish and helping to defeat the Spanish Armada
Who was Sir Francis Drake?
This is a special number (equal to about 1.618) that appears many times in geometry, art, an architecture.
What is divine proportion, or golden ratio?
A system of government that had social classes with kings being at the top and the peasants at the bottom with the nobles and knights in the middle
What is feudalism?
Religious groups whose beliefs did not wholly conform with the medieval Church's doctrines.
What are heretics?
This style has a set of unique features that set it apart from all other styles. Most importantly, it is characterized by long pointed arches, flying exterior buttresses, stained-glass windows that were longer than before, ribbed vaults, and spires.
What is gothic?
On August 24, 1572, this English explorer witnessed the St Bartholomew's Day massacre where French Protestants were massacred by French Catholics in Paris
Who was Sir Walter Raleigh?
The theory that was thought to influence human health. They had to be in perfect balance, or a person would become sick, either physically or in terms of personality.
What are the Four Humors?
This was effectively the first written constitution in European history
What is the Magna Carta?
A 16th-century movement for the reform of abuses in the Roman Catholic Church ending in the establishment of the Reformed and Protestant Churches.
What is the Reformation?
He was one of the leading architects and engineers of the Italian Renaissance and is best known for his work on the Cathedral of Santa Maria del Fiore (the Duomo) in Florence.
Who was Brunelleschi?
America was named after this explorer in 1507.
Who was Amerigo Vespucci?
Alchemists believed that this could transform common metals like lead into silver or gold and could be used as an elixir of life for health and longevity.
What is the philosopher's stone?
An emphasis on living well in this world and understanding better the activities of this world—political, economic, social and intellectual.
What is secularism?
He was born Giovanni de’ Medici in Florence and was considered one of the leading Renaissance popes (reigned 1513–21).
Who was Leo X?