Renaissance Art
Key Figures
Science & Discovery
Vocabulary
Events & Dates
100

This artist painted the Mona Lisa and The Last Supper.

Leonardo da Vinci

100

This family was a major patron of the arts in Florence.

Medici

100

He proposed the heliocentric model of the universe.

Nicolaus Copernicus

100

A Renaissance intellectual movement focused on human potential and achievements.

Humanism

100

The Renaissance began in this country.

Italy

200

This sculpture of David was created by this Renaissance master.

Michelangelo

200

He wrote 'Utopia'

Thomas More

200

This scientist improved the telescope and supported heliocentrism.

Galileo Galilei

200

Financial support for artists, often from wealthy families or the Church.

Patronage 

200

The invention that helped spread Renaissance ideas quickly.

Printing press

300

This artist is known for his painting The School of Athens.

Raphael

300

This queen was a major patron of the arts in England during the Renaissance.

Queen Elizabeth I

300

He revolutionized the study of the human anatomy.

Andreas Vesalius

300

Art in the style of ancient Greece and Rome.

Classical

300

This weakened feudal society.

Bubonic Plague

400

The artistic technique that makes images look three dimensional.

Perspective

400

This German artist was known for woodcuts and engravings.

Albrecht Dürer

400

He invented the movable-type printing press.

Johannes Gutenberg

400

The everyday language of ordinary people.

Vernacular

400

This time period took place from 500 A.D./CE to 1500 A.D./CE & is also known as the Dark Ages.

Middle Ages

500

This early Renaissance sculptor created a bronze statue of David.

Donatello

500

This humanist wrote 'In Praise of Folly'.

Desiderius Erasmus

500

Considered the father of Humanism

Francesco Petrarch

500

A cultural revival of art, literature, and learning in Europe from the 14th–17th centuries.

Renaissance

500

This was focused on religious reforms & everyday life.

The Northern Renaissance