Painters
Italian Renaissance
Northern Renaissance
Writers
Sundry
100
technique giving the illusion of depth
Perspective
100
Birthplace of the Renaissance
Italy
100
Home to Thomas More
England
100
Creation of this was an important precursor to the printing press
moveable type or paper
100
Societal shift that prepared the way for the Renaissance
reduction in population or higher standard of living
200
DAILY DOUBLE!!!
Usually the center of a painting where things go off into the distance
vanishing point
200
Family that dominated Florence
Medici
200
Northern artist famous for his oil paintings
Jan van Eych
200
England's most famous author/writer
Shakespeare
200
Painter & Inventor
Leonardo da Vinci
300
Painter famous for his "Madonnas"
Rafael
300
Why did city-states emerge in Italy?
the unity of noble families with merchant families
300
German artist famous for his woodcarvings
Dürer
300
Famous Renaissance author of "The Prince"
Machiavelli
300
The end of this war led to prosperity in Northern Europe
100 Year's War
400
German painter, famous for painting the English Royal Family
Holbein
400
Most famous patron of the arts
Lorenzo the Magnificent (Lorenzo Medici)
400
Erasmus' most famous book
The Praise of Folly
400
DAILY DOUBLE!!!
Castiglione's most famous book (defined the Renaissance Man and Woman)
The Courtier
400
Author of "The Decameron"
Boccaccio
500
Michelangelo's most famous painting.
Sistine Chapel
500
Author of the "rule book" for Renaissance architecture
Palladio
500
The one of two regions in modern Netherlands famous for their art
Flanders or Holland
500
Sir Thomas More's famous book
Utopia
500
Subject sculpted by both Michelangelo (famous marble statue) and Donatello (less famous bronze statue)
David