Renaissance Writers and Artists

Question 1

Sir Thomas More

Answer 1

Literature- Utopia, describes the political state of an imaginary island

Question 2

Chaucer

Answer 2

Literature- The Canterbury Tales

Question 3

Petrarch

Answer 3

Poet- Sonnets to Laura, narrative poems

Question 4

Giovanni Bellini

Answer 4

Painting, Human beings and their dignity

Question 5

Erasmus

Answer 5

Religious literature- In Praise of Folly, wanted everyday people to be able to read the bible instead of just the rich and wealthy

Question 6

Dante

Answer 6

Fiction literature- The Divine Comedy, a comedic poem

Question 7

Boccaccio

Answer 7

Literature- The Decameron, , collection of short stories/biographies

Question 8

Machiavelli

Answer 8

literature- The Prince, philosopher

Question 9

Rabelais

Answer 9

Fiction literature- the Gargantua-Pantagruel series, four romance books

Question 10

Cervantes Fiction

Answer 10

Literature- Don Quixote, wrote the first full length novel instead of novellas

Question 11

John Milton

Answer 11

Poet- Paradise Lost, prose

Question 12

Moliere

Answer 12

Plays- The Misanthrope, scandalous/risky comedy

Question 13

DiCaprio

Answer 13

artist- The last supper and Mona Lisa

Question 14

Raphael

Answer 14

Painter, The School of Athens, wanted to commemorate the great minds of ancient Greece

Question 15

Michelangelo

Answer 15

Painter and Sculptor- The ceiling of the Sistine Chapel and The Creation of Adam

Question 16

Da Vinci

Answer 16

Painter- The Last Supper, Virgin of the Rocks, realistic paintings of religious figures/moments

Question 17

Donatello

Answer 17

Sculptor- Penitent Magdalene, realistic sculptures

Question 18

Titian

Answer 18

Painter- Venus of Urbino and Pieta, use of colors and new textures

Question 19

El Greco

Answer 19

Painter and Sculptor- View of Toledo and The Disrobing of Christ, unnatural proportions and different perspectives