In the beginning...
TERMS & Conditions
Lit & Artsy
Get Reformed
Odds & Ends
100

This movement, meaning "rebirth", lasted from about 1300 AD to 1600 AD

Renaissance

100

This intellectual movement focused on human potential, creativity, and achievements. 

Humanism

100

This style of art included 3 dimensional drawings/paintings and life-like sculptures with expressions, posture, and personality, and became a lasting impact.

Realism

100

This practice of allowing people to "pay off" their sins was one of the main problems people had with the Catholic Church.

Selling Indulgences

100

The inventor of the printing press.

Johannes Gutenberg

200

This country was (and is) home to the city and former empire of Rome.

Italy

200

This was someone who supported/financed artists by buying their work, commissioning artwork to be made, or started museums for the public.   

Patron of the arts

200

This Elizabethan Age author focused on the human soul and all its potential in his plays and poems, which we still read today.

William Shakespeare

200

This is the name for the list of formal grievances Martin Luther nailed to the door of the Catholic Church in Germany.

95 Theses

200

The English King who split from the Pope just so he could marry as many women as he wanted. 

King Henry VIII

300

These territories, made up of a central city trading hub and its surrounding countryland, were a perfect place for the Renaissance to start. 

City-states in Italy

300

A man who was very skilled and educated in all areas of study.

Renaissance Man

300

History, philosophy, and literature are all studies that fall under this area of study that became a lasting impact of the Renaissance.

The Humanities
300

This action taken by the Catholic Church to eliminate any literature it deemed a threat was a response to the Protestant Reformation, and was part of the Counter-Reformation.

Burning books

300

Finish this sentence: Renaissance women were expected to inspire art, but...

not create it

400

This class of Italian citizens worked to earn their high status in society, and helped make the Renaissance possible by funding artists. 

Wealthy merchant class

400

This term came to describe anyone belonging to a religion that was NOT the Catholic Church.

Protestant

400

Name 3 famous Italian painters to come out of the Renaissance period. 

Leonardo Da Vinci, Michelangelo, Donatello, Raphael Sanzio, Sofonisba Anguissola

400

This famous Queen of England was a huge patron of the arts and also founded the Anglican Church, in which she mixed Catholic traditions and Protestant beliefs.

Queen Elizabeth I

400

Key figure of the Reformation who brought more order to Luther's movement and influences many of the Protestant religions' beliefs, even today. 

John Calvin

500

Finish this sentence: Unlike it was under the Roman Empire, life in the Middle Ages were so drab and unartistic-- during the Renaissance, people wanted to return to....

The classics/classical, refined culture & art of Rome/Greece.

500

This adjective describes the general focus of society, as it shifted away from exclusively religious themes. 

Secular

500

In this book by famous author Machiavelli, he advises rulers to be selfish, crafty, and deceitful to their people, in order to be politically effective. 

The Prince

500

This group pushed for equal education of boys and girls during the Renaissance period. 

Christian Humanists

500

The new religious order of well-trained men who were sent out to found schools, convert people to Catholicism, and stop the spread of Protestantism. 

The Jesuits