Renaissance
A worldly view during the Renaissance.
What is secularism?
Who did the Renaissance benefit the most? Why?
What is the upper class because they had time to study, perform, and create.
These are people who pay and support artist to create.
What is a patron?
These are the two cultures people looked to for inspiration during the Renaissance.
What are Greek and Roman?
These soldiers are hired to fight
Who are mercenary soldiers?
This is a way of thought that focuses on human beings and their potential for achievement.
What is humanism?
This man spoke against the pope sentenced to death.
Who is Savonarola?
The upper class during the Renaissance used art to __________________________________.
What is to show wealth, influence, and power.
This man contributed to medicine (although not recognized during his time) by dissecting and drawing human bodies.
Who is Leonardo da Vinci?
This is a government by a few powerful people.
What is an oligarchy?
This period came before the Renaissance and was about suffering and pain.
What is the Medieval, Middle, or the Dark Ages?
He created the printing press.
Who is Johannes Gutenberg?
This is creating the appearance of distance on a flat surface.
What is perspective?
This person first who proposed that the sun is the centre of the universe.
Who is Copernicus?
This is a technique of mural painting done on wet plaster.
What is fresco?
List one reasons the Renaissance began in Italy?
-Italy the center of the Roman empire
-Located where important trade routes were
-Mild climate=more food=more time for art etc...
-Used Roman legal code
This man was known for writing "The Prince" and believing that most humans were "wretched creatures".
Who is Machiavelli?
A famous Renaissance artist, painter, sculptor, architect and poet known for the statue David.
Who is Michaelangelo?
He was the first to create a telescope that allowed him to see things no one had before.
Who is Galileo?
This is money paid to the family of the groom by the bride's family.
What is a dowry?
These studies were at the core of humanist schools.
What are liberal studies?
Someone who excels in many different areas, has many talents were called _______________.
What is a Renaissance Man?
A famous Renaissance artist, sculptor, engineer, painter, inventor, mathematician, and author known for the Mona Lisa.
Who is Leonardo Da Vinci?
This is what the word "Renaissance" means.
What is rebirth?
When something is spoken or written in the local, every-day language.
What is vernacular?