A wealthy person that pays an artist to create art.
What is a patron?
100
The continent of Asia.
What is a continent that Europeans commonly traded with?
100
History, Romance, Politics, Prejudice, Murder, and War.
What are the topics that William Shakespeare most commonly used?
100
Discovered the composition of white light, gravity, and 3 laws of motion.
What is Issac Newton famous for?
100
Figures looked stiff and lacked motion.
What is a characteristic of Medieval Art?
200
A way of thinking that sought to balance religious faith with emphasis on individual dignity, interest in nature, and human society.
What is Humanism?
200
To convert foreign money, loan money to merchants, and fund new businesses.
What is the role of a banker?
200
Using humor and other methods to attack people and society.
What is satire?
200
Wrote a book called “On the Revolution of the Heavenly Body."
What is Nicolas Copernicus famous for?
200
Located near the center of the horizon line, where all orthogonal lines come together.
What is the vanishng point?
300
Believed that wealth allowed them to do fine and noble deeds.
What is a viewpoint of humanists?
300
Created the strongest and wealthiest empire in Europe.
What is the importance of Queen Elizabeth 1?
300
Encouraged writers to write about emotions in their local language.
What is the importance of Dante Alighieri?
300
Founded the Institute at Sagres.
What is Prince Henry famous for?
300
Contains spires, stained glass windows, and flying buttresses.
What are some characteristics of Gothic architecture?
400
Governed by independent city states, the central towns became centers of trade, and Italians traded goods with Arabs.
What are the advantages of Italy that helped the Renaissance begin there?
400
Wrote "The Prince."
What is the importance of Niccolo Machiavelli?
400
Wrote plays that show full range of human abilities.
What is the importance of William Shakespeare.
400
Books and pamphlets became less costly and easier to obtain.
How did the invention of the printing press lead to an increase in literacy?
400
Includes paintings of biblical stories including the creation of Adam painted by Michelangelo.
What is on the Sistine Chapel?
500
New types of food, art, spices, and luxurious items became available, and merchants and traders interested in new ideas, technologies, products, and experimentation
What is the increase in trade that changed life in Italian cities?
500
A region of independent city states that controlled their own trade, taxation, and legal systems. Some city states became republics when they elected councils to govern.
What is the condition of Italy before the Renaissance?
500
Reading became a pastime for everyone rather than only the highly educated.
What is a way that literature changed during the Renaissance?
500
They conflicted with the Churches teachings. For example, the church believed in a geocentric universe, but science proved a heliocentric universe.
What is a reason that scientific advancements caused problems with the church?
500
Has elongated domes and decorative columns.
What are some characteristics of Renaissance architecture?