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The _____________ was a great cultural revival that began in Italy in the 1300s.
What is RENAISSANCE.
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______________________ is the belief that the individual is more important than the larger community.
What is INDIVIDUALISM.
100
TRUE OR FALSE: Feudalism grew weaker when trade and industry grew.
What is TRUE
100
Describe one characteristic of Renaissance painting
What is REALISTIC, DETAILED, EMOTIONAL, ETC.
100
Who created the Statue of David?
Michelangelo.
200
A new Urban aristocracy was formed when the rural nobility joined a class of people, the ___________________ middle class, who were engaged in commerce or trade.
What is MERCANTILE
200
_________________ was a cultural movement of the Renaissance based on the study of classical works
What is HUMANISM.
200
During the Renaissance, church officials ___________ many works of literature in order to prevent people from reading criticisms of the Church.
What is CENSORED.
200
Many Renaissance artist used _________, which was a design etched on a metal plate with a needle and acid.
What is ENGRAVING
200
The first major work of Spanish literature was...
What is DON QUIXOTE
300
True or false: peasants and nobles moved from towns to manors because there were more opportunities.
What is FALSE- Peasants moved TO towns
300
Most medieval art dealt with:
What is RELIGION
300
Sir Thomas More’s Utopia was a place that was governed by:
What is REASON
300
William Shakespeare wrote plays and ________, poems made up of 14 lines with a fixed rhyming pattern.
What is SONNETS.
300
Renaissance reformer who used satire to criticize Church leaders and practices:
What is Desiderius Erasmus.
400
How did wealthy merchants and bankers help to promote the arts and learning?
What is WEALTHY MERCHANTS WERE PATRONS TO ARTISTS.
400
What sparked the interest of Renaissance thinkers to become interested in humanism?
What is GREEK AND ROMAN KNOWLEDGE AND THOUGHT.
400
True or false: Dante Alighieri’s work, The Divine Comedy, was written in Latin, not Italian.
What is FALSE- It was written in Italian, NOT Latin.
400
The discovery of the rules of ________________, a mathematical system for representing three-dimensional space on a flat surface, is credited to architect Filippo Brunelleschi.
What is LINEAR PERSPECTIVE.
400
What technique did Renaissance architects use to design structures that were balanced and pleasing?
They used proportion, which was based on the principles of mathematics. They also relied on simple geometric forms and borrowed elements from Greek and Roman architecture.
500
How did humanist writers like Francois Rabelais express their opinions of religious and political traditions?
What is HE USED SATIRE TO CRITICIZE RELIGION AND POLITICS.
500
How did the Catholic Church respond to forms of self-expression and criticism that appeared in books and broadsheets?
What is THEY BEGAN TO CENSOR WORKS, CREATED A LIST OF PROHIBITED BOOKS, AND HIRED PEOPLE TO APPROVE OR FORBID WORKS FROM BEING PUBLISHED.
500
How did the idea of individualism affect Renaissance artists?
What is ARTISTS BEGAN TO EXPLORE THEIR IMAGINATION AND BEGAN TO VALUE CREATIVITY.
500
Why was Leonardo da Vinci called a “Renaissance Man”? Discuss his talents and achievements and his contributions to the legacy of the Renaissance.
He possessed a wide range of skills including painting, drawing, engineering, architecture and music; His curiosity was his greatest asset. He had ideas and theories on many topics, his research was ahead of its time. His contributions include: the famous painting, “The Last Supper” and the “Mona Lisa”
500
True or False: Feudalism was not as strongly developed in Italy as in other countries.
What is TRUE!