Renaissance

Renaissance

100

The Renaissance man often considered the medieval period as merely a?

backward, unimportant interval between the achievement of classical culture and the glory of his own "modern" age.

200

This is what the French word for Renaissance means?

Rebirth

300

The renewed focus on man's capacities is called?

Humanism

400

Many humanists believe man is basically?

Good

500

The Renaissance took place between what centuries?

The 14th and 16th centuries.

Renaissance Learning and Literature

100

The goal of Renaissance education was to develop?

Well-rounded individuals

200

Renaissance humanists greatly admired the classical age of these two ancient civilizations?

Greece and Rome

300

Members of this family were perhaps the most famous patrons besides the Roman Church?

Medici family

400

This writer wrote "such a man uses force when necessary since "it is much safer to be feared than loved."

Niccolo Machiavelli

500

Writer of Don Quixote which satirizes chivalry?

Miguel de Cervantes

More Writers and Painters

100

Considered the greatest playwright of all time and finest poet in the English language?

William Shakespeare

200

Most Renaissance artists were extremely ___________ of their work and wanted their names known and their works praised.

Proud

300

This painter gave his characters a sense of activity (movement)?

Sandro Botticelli

400

Known as the Renaissance Man for his wide range of interests?

Leonardo Da Vinci

500

His fresco on the Sistine Chapel depicts the stories of Creation, the Fall, the Flood, and the redemption of man as prophesied by the Old Testament prophets.

Michelangelo

More Painters and Sculptors and Architects

100

Leonardo of the North?

Albrecht Durer

200

Remembered more for his woodcarvings and engravings, which were used to illustrate printed books?

Albrecht Durer

300

This sculptor cast the first full-scale equestrian statue (man on horseback) since Roman times.

Donatello

400

• The Renaissance’s secular emphasis helped weaken moral restraints and thereby made the need for reform more readily apparent. 2. The humanists, who sought to imitate the best of the classical world, often embraced its evils. 3. The worship of classical forms often led to the worship of classical ideas. 4. As educational opportunities improved, many embraced the error that ignorance is the source of evil and that education would solve man’s spiritual problems. 5. Many who embraced the Renaissance supported the lie that man is, by nature, good and capable of achievement apart from God.

Negative aspects of the Renaissance

500

• The Renaissance provoked a spirit of inquiry (questioning). 2. It revived interest in the literature and language of antiquity. 3. It developed movable-type printing. 4. It made education more widely available to the middle class. 5. It stressed the importance of the individual, thus restoring the proper emphasis on individual responsibility – the obligation each man has to God and to his fellow man.

Positive aspects of the Renaissance.

Grab Bag

100

This document limited the king's power by saying the king is not above the law?

Magna Carta

200

Excommunication, interdict, and inquisition are all examples of?

Papal Weapons

300

Canterbury Tales Author?

Geoffrey Chaucer

400

Founders of Rome?

Romulus and Remus

500

Female Pharaoh

Hatshepsut or Nefertiti