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In the Beginning..
Dates & Isms
Key Events
People of the Renaissance
You Heard it First in the Renaissance!
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It is a set of religious rules that can not be challanged

What is dogma ?

100

He is a writer and reformer during the Renaissance.

Who is Erasmus ?

100

It is a book written by Machiavelli .

What is ' The Prince ' ?

100

His perseverance and commitment to his understanding of the truth literally cost him his head, which is ironic for a man who wrote about Utopia!

Who is Sir Thomas More?

100
These were very valuable because with them one could make paper.
What are linen rags?
200
A great cultural revival that swept through Europe from 1300 to 1500.
What is the Renaissance?
200
A cultural movement based on the study of the classical works.
What is humanism?
200
1475 is the birth year of this great painter and sculptor who adorned the Sistine Chapel in the Vatican.
Who is Michelangelo Buonarroti?
200
A life long friend of Sir Thomas More as well as a satire writer who boldly criticized the Church in his work entitled, In Praise of Folly."
Who is Erasmus?
200
A song whose identity is bound up in being no more, or no less than twenty lines.
What is a sonnet?
300
Persons who gave money and other types of support to a person or group.
What is a patron?
300
A philosophy where religion was no longer considered the center of human life.
What is secularism?
300
1503 was the beginning of this young lady's painting and it took two years but she never cracked much of a smile.
What is the Mona Lisa?
300
He wrote a book of comic tales about a giant and his son but it was really a commentary on the social upheaval that occurred during the transition from feudalism to mercantilism.
Who is Francois Rabelais?
300
Brunelleschi pushed creativity to the sky by using this technique for representing three-dimensional space on a flat surface.
What is linear perspective?
400
That which is related to commerce or trade.
What is mercantile?
400

The everyday spoken language of the people.

What is vernacular?

400
In 1454 the Bible is finally published due to this man's important contribution.
Who is Gutenberg?
400
He was also known as Albrecht Durer and was a great artist with a wide range of interests, including a special technique he learned and brought back from Italy that used acid and a needle.
Who was Leonardo of the North and what is engraving?
400
Not to be outdone by Brunneleschi, Da Vinci used his specially created technique to soften outlines and shadows to produce the effect of distance.
What is sfumato?
500
Changes that led to the breakdown of the Feudal system and Feudal order.
What are economic and social changes?
500
The philosophy that freed Renaissance art from the themes of sin and human imperfection.
What is individualism?
500

It is an opinion that differs from the court 's beliefs .

What is heresy?

500
He found out the hard way that what is true, like the earth is not the center of the universe, was not always what the Church wanted to hear, to put it mildly!!
Who is Galileo?
500
Many of the popes were patrons of the arts and this one was no different, that's why he hired Michelangelo to paint the ceiling of the Sistine Chapel.
Who is Pope Julius II?