Renaissance

Renaissance Art

1

Michelangelo painted this while looking up

What is the Sistine Chapel

2

Someone who commissions (decides on the piece and pays for it) an artwork to be done

What is a patron

3

It let artists work more slowly and allowed them to obtain more lifelike effects.

Oil Painting

4

Who painted "The School of Athens"

Raphael 

5

Used in ancient and medieval times where they freshly painted in plastered walls.

Fresco

Renaissance Men

1

The most famous Renaissance man

Leonardo Da Vinci

2

Many regarded him as the world’s finest dramatist and the greatest writer in the English language.

William Shakespeare

3

This famous scientist was placed on house arrest after confirming Copernicus's theory that the earth was not at the center of the universe

Galileo Galilei

4

Sir Thomas More was a Renaissance thinker and writer responsible for writing what book

What is Utopia

5

Italian Born writer most famous for his work on the Divine comedy

Dante

Renaissance Inventions

1

What was originally made for the Queen, and helped with hygiene and sanitation? 

Flush toilet 

2

This helped spread word, making events such as the Reformation, a wide spread and easily accessible event

The printing press

3

I created the printing press and the bibles that were made were named after me

Johannes Gutenberg

4

Who kept many of their inventions a secret and often coded their work so no one could steal their ideas

Leonardo Da Vinci

5

Which two inventions did the glass lens help inspire

Microscope and telescope

Renaissance Religion

1

This man was excommunicated from the Catholic Church after telling people why he disagreed with the pope

Martin Luther

2

What was the branch of Christianity called that resulted from the Reformation

Protestant

4

Martin Luther nailed what to the door of a church?

95 theses

Renaissance Random

1

What major disease killed millions of Europeans from 1348-1350?

Bubonic Plague

2

What does "renaissance" literally mean

re birth

3

System of thought where emphasis was placed on human interests and not spiritual was called

Humanism

4

Who was arguably the most famous family of the Renaissance

The Medici's 

5

What Society did the people of the Renaissance look to for inspiration?

Who are the Greek and Romans?