Vocabulary
Artistic Masterpieces
Famous Figures
Writers and Important Works
Important Cities
100
This Renaissance painted the Last Supper, as well as Mona Lisa.
Who is Leonardo da Vinci?
100
This figure is seen as the ultimate "Renaissance man."
Who is Leonardo da Vinci?
100
This writer is considered the most important English playwright in history, known for works such as Romeo and Juliet, MacBeth, and Hamlet?
Who is William Shakespeare?
100
This Italian city was an important banking center that created wealthy patrons who were willing to spend money on luxuries.
Where is Florence?
200
This term means to spread ideas through interaction.
What is cultural diffusion?
200
This Renaissance artist painted the ceiling of the Sistene Chapel as well as sculpted David.
Who is Michelangelo?
200
This important family of wealthy Florentine bankers were well-known for patroning the arts, helping to spread the ideals of the Renaissance.
Who are the Medici family?
200
This English author used the vernacular, the common or locally used language) to write The Canterbury Tales.
Who is Geoffrey Chaucer?
200
This Italian city was an international port that had visitors from other countries bring come in with their new ideas and technologies.
What is Venice?
300
This term means a renewed interest in ancient Greek an Roman culture and values.
What is classicism?
300
This Renaissance artist painted the Arnolfini Portrait and was a product of the late Northern Renaissance.
Who is Jan van Eyck?
300
This famous family was very powerful during the Renaissance, producing a pope as well as an important female patron of the arts, Lucrezia.
Who were the Borgias?
300
This Italian writer wrong The Divine Comedy in Italian (vernacular) not Latin which tells the epic journey through hell, purgatory, and heaven.
Who is Dante Alighieri?
300
This Italian city is the home of the Vatican, the seat of the Church, during the Renaissance.
Where is Rome?
400
This term means not religious.
What is secular?
400
This Renaissance artist painted the School of Athens as well as the Sistene Madonna.
Who is Raphael?
400
This scientist changed the face of science by writing that the Earth rotates around the Sun, promoting a heliocentric theory.
Who is Nicolaus Copernicus?
400
This author wrote the novel Don Quixote which made fun of chivalry and culture of Medieval Europe.
Who is Miguel Cervantes?
400
This English capital is the home of many of Shakespeare's works and where he built his theater, the Globe.
Where is London?
500
This term refers to the theory that the Sun is the center of the universe, where all planets and bodies orbit it.
What is heliocentric?
500
This Renaissance artist used point perspective and dimension to draw the viewer into his paintings, such as the Venus de Milo.
Who is Botticelli?
500
This inventor created what is argued as the most important invention of the Renaissance which helped spread Renaissance ideas throughout the rest of Europe.
Who is Johannes Gutenberg?
500
This author wrote Praise of Folly which criticized the Church, corrupt officials, and Clergy. This author's ideas will help spark that ideas that led to the Reformation.
Who is Erasmus?
500
This city found in Flemish-speaking area of modern-day Belgium was home to Jan van Eyck, a Northern Renaissance painter, and one of the great cities of the period.
Where is Bruges?