This artist nearly went blind while working by himself to complete the frescoes that decorate the ceiling of the Sistine Chapel.
Who is Michelangelo Buonarroti?
100
Italian poets Petrarch and Dante helped create interest in ancient Greek and Roman culture and philosophy. This idea played a big role in bringing about the Renaissance.
What is humanism?
100
The Renaissance began in the city of Florence, Italy because many rich patrons spent fortunes on art. No family spent more than this family, however.
Who were the Medici Family?
100
Jan Van Eyck
Raphael Sanzio
William Shakespeare
Leonardo Da Vinci
Who is William Shakespeare?
200
This is Leonardo da Vinci's most famous fresco. Name it.
What is the Last Supper?
200
This artist's most famous works can be found inside the Vatican Palace, where he painted giant frescoes for Popes Julius II and Leo X.
Who is Raphael Sanzio?
200
More and more writers began to publish books in their own local languages during the Renaissance. This contrasted from the writings of the medieval times when all books were written in this language.
What is Latin?
200
Italian city-states in the 1400's were rich due to increased trade with the East. To help better facilitate trade many powerful Italian families opened these.
What are banks?
200
The Last Supper
David
Pieta
The Last Judgement
What is the Last Supper?
300
Name the painter of this famous mythological Renaissance painting.
Who is Sandro Botticelli?
300
This famous artist recorded down many of his unique in inventions and ideas in a series of notebooks using mirror-writing.
Who is Leonardo da Vinci?
300
Separation of religious and non-religious matters allowed Renaissance artists to explore many new subjects in their art. This idea of separating the church and the state is known as this.
What is secularism?
300
The size of European cities steadily increased as peasants abandoned their farms on traditional manors and moved to the city to look for jobs where they could earn higher wages after this devastating disease spread across Europe.
What is The Black Death?
300
Realism
Predestination
Proportion
Linear Perspective
What is Predestination?
400
This is where one would find this fresco, The Creation of Adam. Be specific.
Where is the Sistine Chapel ceiling?
400
This artists's woodcut of a Rhinoceros was still be used in German science textbooks until the beginning of the 20th century.
Who is Albrecht Durer?
400
Renaissance artists began to stand up against old traditions and to question old beliefs. They believed that ordinary people should use their reason to make decisions for themselves instead of following what everyone else did.
What is individualism?
400
This series of religious wars between Christians and Muslims also helped bring about the Renaissance by increasing the interaction between Europe and the East and by exposing Europeans to Muslim knowledge of philosophy. mathematics and the sciences, some of which had been preserved by the Muslims from ancient Greek and Roman sources.
What were the Crusades?
400
William Shakespeare
Satire
Francesco Petrarch
Sonnet
What is Satire?
500
This is the difference between these two paintings of the same subject, the Beheading of the Assyrian General Holofernes by Judith (it's from the Bible).
What is the top one was painted by a woman (Artemisia Gentileschi) and the bottom one was painted by a man (Caravaggio)?
500
We know so much about the lives of the great Renaissance artists because they were recorded in biographies written by this Renaissance painter.
Who is Giorgio Vasari?
500
Renaissance Art tried to depict people, buildings and scenery as they appeared in nature, instead of focusing on their religious meaning or significance like art in the Medieval Times did.
What is Renaissance Realism?
500
Literacy rates sky-rocketed in Europe after the invention of the printing press. This invention allowed Renaissance ideas to spread much more easily. So, we must not forget to thank this man, the inventor of the printing press, for his large influence on the development of the Renaissance.
Who is Johann Gutenberg?
500
Lorenzo de Medici
Pope Leo X
Pope Clement VII
Pope Julius II