Italian Masters
Known for the Mona Lisa and The Last Supper, he was the quintessential "Renaissance Man" interested in anatomy and engineering.
Who is Leonardo da Vinci?
This king broke away from the Catholic Church because the Pope refused to annul his marriage.
Who is King Henry VIII?
Martin Luther famously nailed these to the door of the Wittenberg Church to protest the sale of indulgences.
What are the 95 Theses?
This term refers to the "rebirth" of classical Greek and Roman culture.
What is the Renaissance?
This person wrote the "Decameron," that told a story about 7 women and 3 men who hide in a villa for two weeks and tell a different story each night.
Who is Boccaccio?
This sculptor and painter is responsible for the marble David and the massive ceiling of the Sistine Chapel.
Who is Michelangelo?
She was Henry VIII’s first wife, the daughter of Ferdinand and Isabella, who failed to produce a male heir.
Who is Catherine of Aragon?
This was the name for the specific practice Martin Luther hated most: the selling of "extra-credits" or "tickets to heaven" by the Church to forgive sins.
What are indulgences?
This artistic technique uses a vanishing point to create the illusion of 3D depth on a flat surface.
What is a linear perspective?
This figure is the Father of Humanism
Who is Petrarch?
He was famous for his "Madonnas" and his large fresco The School of Athens which depicted great philosophers.
Who is Raphael?
This daughter of Anne Boleyn became one of England’s greatest monarchs and returned the country to Protestantism.
Who is Elizabeth I?
After being excommunicated, Martin Luther was called to this meeting in 1521, where he refused to take back his teachings and was declared an outlaw.
What is the Edict of Worms?
This wealthy family in Florence were major patrons of the arts, funding names like Botticelli and Michelangelo.
Who were the Medicis?
This figure was considered to be "The Father of Italian Language"
Who is Dante?
This master was commissioned by Pope Julius II to paint his private library; the resulting four frescoes, including The Parnassus, represented the four core areas of human knowledge.
Who is Raphael?
She was the only wife of Henry VIII to give him a surviving son, though she died shortly after childbirth.
Who is Jane Seymour?
What did Martin Luther's parents want him to become when he was older?
What is a lawyer?
This invention by Johannes Gutenberg allowed for the rapid spread of Reformation ideas and increased literacy.
What is the Printing Press?
During the Middle Ages, most art and books were about religion. However, Renaissance Humanism encouraged people to also study "human" subjects like history, poetry, and science. This movement was inspired by the ancient ideas of which two civilizations?
What is Humanism?
This early Renaissance sculptor was the first to create a free-standing nude statue (David) since ancient times.
Who is Donatello?
This daughter of Catherine of Aragon earned a "chilly" nickname for her violent persecution of English Protestants.
Who is Bloody Mary?
Because of Martin Luther & The Reformation what are the two main branches of Christianity in the WESTERN world.
What are Catholicism and Protestantism?
This term describes a focus on worldly, non-religious matters rather than spiritual ones.
What is Secularism?
This English writer is perhaps the most famous of all time. He wrote plays like Romeo and Juliet and Hamlet during the later Renaissance.
Who is William Shakespeare?