Rise of the Renaissance
The city in which the Renaissance began.
What is Florence, Italy?
This painter of The Last Supper is known for focusing on linear perspective and realistic depictions of human subjects.
Who is Leonardo da Vinci?
This English king created the Church of England because the pope would not annul his marriage to his first wife.
Who is King Henry VIII?
This Spanish soldier-turned-holy-man created the Society of Jesus, also known as the Jesuit Order.
Who is Ignatius of Loyola?
The heliocentric theory was proposed by this Polish astronomer.
Who is Nicolaus Copernicus?
Merchants and bankers were big patrons of the arts. This banking family were the arts' biggest supporters.
Who are the Medici family?
This painter and sculptor is known for his work in the Sistine Chapel.
Who is Michelangelo?
Protestants believed that the Catholic Church had become corrupt when it began this practice of selling God's forgiveness of sins.
What is an indulgence?
This meeting clarified the Catholic Church's beliefs and reformed some of its practices.
What is the Council of Trent?
This English physicist formulated the theory of gravity.
Who is Isaac Newton?
The approximate range of centuries in which the Renaissance took place.
What are the 1300s–1500s?
This architect designed the dome of the Florence Cathedral.
Who is Filippo Brunelleschi?
Martin Luther and John Calvin believed that the only source of religious truth and knowledge was this.
What is the Bible?
The Catholic Church led these investigations to eliminate heresy, often leading to the arrest, imprisonment, and torture of suspected heretics.
What is the Inquisition?
This invention measures air pressure.
What is a barometer?
The Renaissance began in Italy instead of other parts of Europe because this system of government was not as developed as in other European kingdoms.
What is feudalism?
This German artist, nicknamed "the Leonardo of the North," and was famous for his engravings that made his work widespread.
Who is Albrecht Durer?
This ended the Thirty Years War, fought between Catholics and Protestants in Central Europe.
What is the Peace of Westphalia?
This Spanish nun led a reform of Catholic monasteries and convents.
Who is Teresa of Avila?
Francis Bacon believed that scientists should rely on only this to explain the laws of nature.
What are observations?
The three new ideas (-ism's) that inspired the Renaissance movement.
What are humanism, secularism, and individualism?
This Spanish writer is famous for his novel Don Quixote, a tale of a naïve man who wants to become a knight.
Who is Miguel de Cervantes?
This person translated the Bible into English, and the Catholic Church strangled him to death and burnt him at the stake for it.
Who is William Tyndale?
The Spanish Armada's defeat at the hands of the English Navy was important for this religious reason.
This French philosopher encouraged scientists to be skeptical of everything except their own existence based on this quote: "I think, therefore I am."
Who is Rene Descartes?