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Renaissance
Renaissance
Renaissance Thinkers
Renaissance Thinkers
Renaissance
100
This is what the word Renaissance means
What is rebirth
100
This region of Italy is known as the birthplace of the Renaissance
What is Florence
100
Painter of the Mona Lisa and considered one of the greatest thinkers of the Renaissance
Who is Leonardo da Vinci
100
The study of the structure of the body
What is anatomy
200
The Renaissance was this
What is a period of renewed interest in art and learning in Europe
200
The family of bankers who supported the arts and learning in Florence
What is The Medici family
200
Sculptor of the statue of David and the Pieta
Who is Michelangelo
200
Proposed that all planets revolve around the sun
Who is Copernicus
200
First person to study human anatomy by dissecting bodies
Who is Andreas Vesalius
300
The Renaissance began here
What is the Italian city-states
300
The art technique using light, shading and perspective is known as this
What is chiaroscuro
300
Creator of the movable type printing press
Who is Johannes Gutenberg
300
Developed laws about planetary motion and a refracting telescope
Who is Kepler
300
A person who studies stars, planets, and other heavenly bodies
What is an astronomer
400
The civilizations studied during the Renaissance
What are Greece and Rome
400
The sculpting technique in which the body of the sculpture faces opposite of the torso
What is contrapposto
400
Two men who opposed the Catholic church and believed their practices were corrupt. In turn, they created new Protestant religions.
Who are Martin Luther and John Calvin
400
Observed the Milky Way; Proved Copernicus' theories about the universe
Who is Galileo
500
Instead of religious ideas, Renaissance thinkers began to focus on more realistic things know as this
What is Humanism
500
Renaissance art was less religious, and more this
What is secular- or non-religious
500
Author of the Prince; A Renaissance man who examined the relationship between the ruler and the ruled
Who is Niccolo Machiavelli
500
Developed the theory of gravity and created the reflecting telescope with mirrors
Who is Isaac Newton
500
The first person to officially challenge the Catholic Church
Who is Martin Luther