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Renaissance Artists
Italian City-state info.
Different Styles of Renaissance art.
Famous People
Vocabulary
100
This artist painted the Mona Lisa.
Who is Leonardo Da Vinci?
100
This city-state's people used boats for transportation and used canals and waterways as roads.
What is Venice?
100
Gave art a 3D look.
What is perspective?
100
The greatest English playwright.
Who was Shakespeare?
100
A soldier who fights for money rather than loyalty to a country.
What is a mercenary?
200
This artist was hired by Pope Julius II to work at the Vatican.
Who is Michelangelo?
200
This city-state was the first major center of the Renaissance.
What is Florence?
200
A painting done rapidly in watercolor on wet plaster on a wall or ceiling.
What is a fresco
200
The inventor of the printing press.
Who is Johannes Gutenberg?
200
Money, in the form of coins or paper.
What is currency?
300
This artist instituted gestures and facial expressions in his art, to reveal people's emotions.
Who is Giotto?
300
This powerful family controlled the government of Florence.
What is the Medici?
300
The depiction in art of landscapes – natural scenery such as mountains, valleys, trees, etc.
What is landscape painting?
300
Merchant from Venice who traveled to China.
Who is Marco Polo?
300
Complicated
What is complex?
400
This artist painted many frescoes for the palace of the pope.
Who is Raphael?
400
The ruler of Venice.
Who is the duke or doge?
400
This style used light and shadows instead of stiff outlines to separate objects.
What is chiaroscuro?
400
This person stated that rulers should do whatever was necessary to keep power.
Who is Niccolo Machiavelli?
400
The practice of conducting negotiations between countries.
What is diplomacy?
500
The most celebrated female artist.
Who is Artemisia Gentileschi?
500
Many Italian city-states began as this.
What are republics?
500
Produced from an image carved on metal, wood, or stone.
What is an engraving?
500
This person from the Medici family governed Florence.
Who is Lorenzo de' Medici?
500
Belief in the worth of the individual and that reason is a path to knowledge.
What is humanism?