The Renaissance & Reformation

The Renaissance in Italy

100

What is the definition of the Renaissance?

A rebirth of culture

200

This city-state was the epicenter of the Italian Renaissance:

Florence

300

An intellectual movement that focused more on human potential and achievements:

Humanism

400

This family were major Patrons during the Renaissance:

The Medici’s

500

Strove to be a master in every area of study:

Renaissance Man

Renaissance Painters

100

This Renaissance artist sculpted the Statue of David:

Michelangelo 

200

This Renaissance artist painted the Mona Lisa:

Leonardo DaVinci

300

This Renaissance artist learned from studying other Renaissance artist. Painted the "School of Athens":

Raphael

400

This Renaissance artist made sculpture more realistic by carving natural postures and expression that revealed personality:

Donatello

500

Renaissance painters used __________, which showed three dimensions on a flat surface with a vanishing point in the middle.

Perspective

Renaissance Writers

100

This invention lead to the spread of ideas during the Renaissance:

The Printing Press

200

Referred to as the “Father of the Italian language”. Wrote “The Divine Comedy”.

Dante

300

Wrote sonnets (14 line poems) about a mysterious woman named Laura:

Petrarch

400

Wrote the Decameron. A story told in Italy during the Black Death: 

Boccaccio

500

Wrote The Prince. Explains how a ruler can gain power and keep it in spite of his enemies:

Machiavelli

The Reformation

100

He led the movement to reform the Catholic Church: 

Martin Luther

200

Pope Leo X threatened Martin Luther with ____________ if he didn’t take back his statements:

Excommunication

300

The princes in Germany that supported Luther banded together to protest against those who were against Luther’s ideas, they became known as:

Lutherans

400

A series of papers written by Martin Luther in protest of the Catholic Church:

95 Thesis

500

Martin Luther was considered a _________ for going against the Church:

Heretic

Random

100

He "discovered" America in 1492

Christopher Columbus

200

Writers wrote in their native language rather than Greek or Latin:

Vernacular

300

This Renaissance astronomer pointed the telescope toward the sky:

Galileo

400

This king started his own church in order to divorce his wife:

King Henry VIII

500

He claimed that the Earth was round and the sun was at the center of the solar system:

Copernicus