Locations
This is the area where the Pope lived and though it wasn't a country yet, many key city states that shaped the renaissance were HERE.
Where is Italy?
This man painted the Sistine Chapel.
Who is Michelangelo?
The Renaissance was a rebirth of...
What are ancient Greece & Rome?
This sculptor said he would see the angel within the marble and chisel it away until he could set it free.
Who is Michelangelo?
This term refers to someone sponsoring/commissioning artworks.
What is patronage?
This city was the center of the Renaissance, especially the key site for the Early Renaissance (1300s-1400s).
Where is 💖💖💖Florence?💖💖💖
This man said it is "better to be feared than loved" but where possible, be both.
Who is Machiavelli?
This new role of the artist was seen by artists now signing their pieces of art.
What is artist celebrity?
Naturalism, secularism, and THIS---the focus on mankind were key ideas in Renaissance ideology and artwork.
What is humanism?
This wild family controlled Florence, sponsored many artworks like those of Botticelli and others, and created the major banking industry of Florence. They notoriously manipulated the government as well.
Who are the Medici?
This is the area where the High Renaissance (1400s-1500s) was centered in (mostly).
Where is Rome?
The School of Athens and many portraits of Madonna & Child were made by...
Who is Raphael?
As seen in the Last Supper, this in addition to perspective/depth was a key cornerstone of early Renaissance art.
What is balance?
Da Vinci's unfinished works include one portrait known as this...
Who is the Mona Lisa?
The reliance on ________________________ was helped by new discoveries of Manuscripts from scholars fleeing the destroyed Constantinople (~1453).
What are PRIMARY SOURCES? (like the Old and New Testaments in their original languages and ancient Greek writers like Plato and others)
This is the city of the later Renaissance---the "queen of the Adriatic."
What is Venice?
This man painted portraits such as The Ambassadors and The Portrait of Henry VIII.
Who is Hans Holbein?
This is a term for shifting weight onto one leg in sculpture.
What is contrapposto?
The Sistine Chapel ceiling and the Last Judgement panel are by Michelangelo. What book of the Bible does the Sistine Chapel illustrate and what was it originally supposed to be?
What is Genesis and what are the 12 Disciples?
This man climbed Mt. Ventoux, fangirled over Laura, and wrote a new form of sonnet.
Who is Petrarch? (the Father of Humanism)
The Sforza family controlled this city, which Da Vinci designed many military works for.
What is Milan?
This man invented (rediscovered) linear perspective and made the Duomo of Florence after losing in the Gates of Paradise Baptistry Door competition.
Who is Filipo Brunelleschi?
Chiaroscuro meaning ____________ to ___________ was a dramatic way of shading to create drama, typical of later Renaissance art and consecutive art movements.
What is "Light to Dark"?
This man was known as Michelangelo of the North for his photorealistic artwork, such as the praying hands, self portrait, and the rabbit pieces.
Who is Albrecht Durer?
This man spoke of the Utopia, the perfect land (or "nowhere") where Christians loved eachother and shared all they had. Henry VIII killed him when he wouldn't approve his 1st divorce/vow that Henry was over the church's authority.
This other man wrote In Praise of Folly and translated the Greek New Testament. He "laid the egg that Luther hatched"
Who is Thomas More & who is Erasmus?