Renaissance Painters
Renaissance Inventions
Trade
Humanism
People/Things
100

This Renaissance Man was famous for painting the Mona Lisa.

Who was Leonardo da Vinci?

100

This 1440 enhancement to a Chinese invention made it possible to produce books quickly and cheaper than ever before.

What is the printing press with movable type?

100

What were the three main trade cities of Renaissance Italy?

Pisa, Genoa, Venice

100

At its most basic, humanists believed this about people.

That they are basically good.
100

Who was the financier of Florence?

Who was di Medici?

200

This painter was also good at sculpture, creating a David sculpture out of bronze.

Who was Donatello?

200

What book spoke of a perfect place, that proved to be impossible to go to?

Utopia

200

What is one major trade item from the city of Venice?

What is glass?

200

People began to demand evidence for statements made by Church officials and politicians. Why?

Because the Pope and Church had lied to them so often during the era of the plague.

200

Which of our artists pioneered the use of oils and brush strokes in their paintings?

Who was da Vinci?

300

Which Northern Renaissance artist was famous for his highly detailed and intricate woodblock prints?

Who was Albrecht Durer?

300

Leonardo da Vinci designed these, used by the Germans in WWI.

What are airplane wings?

300

Lorenzo de Medici was this to Michelangelo.

What is a patron?

300

Renaissance artists often created sculptures and paintings with lots of skin showing.  Why?

The appreciated and wanted to explain the beauty of the human form.
300

Who wrote Utopia in 1516?

Who was Sir Thomas More?

400

What was Michelangelo's famous painting that almost blinded him?

What is the Sistine Chapel ceiling?

400

What Renaissance building, now a museum, was financed by the largest banker in Italy? 

What is the Uffizi?

400

Who went to China, served the Great Khan, and fostered trade with Europe?

Who was Marco Polo?

400

What 20th and 21st century High School subjects depended MOST on the increasing requirements for evidence in arguing the truth?


Science

400

Lorenzo de Medici's wife came from this family

Who were the Borgias

500

Who painted the School of Athens?

Who was Raphael?

500

What features of the Roman and Greek eras were used to create the Il Duomo in Florence? (At least 2)

Domes, arches, pillars

500

What element of the Renaissance economy led Florence to become a leading trading center?

What is finance?

500
Like modern detectives, humanistic scholars often examined this to figure out why something had happened.

Evidence

500

One way that humanism influenced art during the Renaissance was through the use of this:

Realism, sculpture