History：Renaissance

Question 1

What does the term Renaissance mean?

Answer 1

It means the rebirth of European interest in the civilization of Ancient Greece and Rome.

Question 2

What are the new ideas about?

Answer 2

New ideas about art ,architecture,science,literature and medicine.

Question 3

What are the causes of the Renaissance?

Answer 3

-Ruins of the Roman Empire
-Fall on Constantinople in 1453
-Wealth from trade
-Competitions between Italian states
-Patrons

Question 4

Who are patrons?

Answer 4

Patrons were wealthy people who commissioned an artist to produce a work of art.

Question 5

Humanism

Answer 5

A shift in mindset from a focus on God to a focus on human knowledge.

Question 6

Perspective

Answer 6

The creation of depth and distance in painting.

Question 7

Anatomy

Answer 7

The study of the structure of human body.

Question 8

Movable type printing press

Answer 8

A method of printing books that placed individual metal letters into a frame to form words ,coated them with ink and pressed the frame onto paper.

Question 9

Heresy

Answer 9

Knowingly holding a view that went against the official teachings of the Catholic Church.