Renaissance Art
A period of rebirth and creativity in art, writing, and thought from about 1300 to 1600 A.D., beginning in Italy and eventually spreading throughout Europe.
What is the renaissance?
The meaning of the French word, renaissance.
What is rebirth?
Classical humanist and expert in classical languages who sought to explain the balance between good and evil, truth and lies, faith and reason.
Who was Thomas Aquinas?
The name of the movement set off by Martin Luther with the goal to rid the church of corruption and false doctrines
What is the Reformation?
The century in which the renaissance began
What is the 14th century?
I explored North America for Spain. I traveled to N.A. four times, and thought I had found India.
Columbus
a set of holy wars where Europeans tried to take back Jerusalem
Crusades
These three artists were from the Renaissance Art Period.
A. Picasso, Pollock, and Edgar Degas
B. Raphael, Michaelangelo, and Leonardo da Vinci
C. Frida Kahlo, Claude Monet, and Rembrandt
Who were Raphael, Michaelangelo, and Leonardo da Vinci?
Renewed interest in these cultures was characteristic of the Renaissance?
What is Greek and Roman?
The quintessential Renaissance Man; he was a painter, sculptor, scientist, engineer, and inventor
Who was Leonardo da Vinci?
Definition: Concerned with worldly rather than spiritual matters; opposite of religious/sacred
What is secular?
This monk wrote 95 Theses to argue against the corruption of the Catholic church. He started Protestantism.
Martin Luther
I was a famous cartographer who sailed for Spain. I found South America and mapped North and South America. Both are named in my honor.
Amerigo Vespucci
Set of wars against European Muslims (Moors) to take back Spanish land for Catholic Christians.
Reconquista
The artist who painted the Sistine Chapel.
Who was Michaelangelo?
This invention helped spread Renaissance and Reformation ideas.
What is the printing press?
An explorer who never explored but paid for others to explore. He also opened up a navigation school.
Who was Prince Henry the Navigator?
An intellectual movement in which thinkers focused on human potential and achievements
What is humanism?
The family who became the major patrons of the Renaissance in Italy
What was The Medici family?
My crew were the first to circumnavigate the globe. I named two bodies of water before I died in the Philippines. My crew continued home.
Magellan
A time period where the Spanish monarchs questions whether people were Catholic or not. They had to either convert to Catholicism or lose everything, possibly including their lives.
Inquisition
Name the scientist in the correct order to match the code word:
A. Telescope/Microscope
B. Scientific Method
C. Heliocentric Theory
D. Elliptical Orbits
E.
Galileo, BACON, Copernicus, Kepler, Newton
What is Florence, Italy?
English playwright of late Renaissance who wrote comedies, tragedies, and histories.
Who was William Shakespeare?
This person was anti-protestantism so much that she demanded her nation return to the Catholic faith through harsh and sometimes violet means.
Who is Mary I of England
This event in 1453 gave the Renaissance a large boost as Eastern scholars brought Greek texts to Italy.
What is the fall of Constantinople?
Vasco da Gama
The person who helped spark the Reformation in England by translating the Bible into English.
A movement that began to change scientific thinking.
What is Scientific Revolution
The name of the Renaissance as it spread to England? (named in honor of it's queen)
The Elizabethan Era
German printmaker of the Renaissance who was invented the printing press.
Who was Johannes Gutenberg?
A belief or theory that anything and everything is for sale. This happened during the Age of Exploration.
Mercantilism
Coinciding with the Renaissance, this movement was characterized by the rise in native languages over Latin, the increasing importance of monarchies/city-states over the rule of the Church, and the break-up of old feudal structures. People took pride in their countries.
What is nationalism?
This explorer/monk was known for trying to get the conquistadors to behave friendly towards the indigenous people of the Americas.
Bartolome de las Casas
A. the Aztec Empire
B. the Inca Empire.
A. Cortes
B. Pizarro