Renaissance 4

Question 1

What were two new artistic techniques during the Renaissance?

Answer 1

During the Renaissance artists learned about perspective and proportion.

Question 2

What is perspective?

Answer 2

Perspective is making things in the distance or background smaller.

Question 3

What is proportion?

Answer 3

Proportion is making things the right size in relation to each other. Ie People are smaller than buildings beside them.

Question 4

Who is Michelangelo?

Answer 4

Michelangelo is one of the greatest artists of the Renaissance.

Question 5

What statue is Michelangelo famous for?

Answer 5

The statue of David is 5 meters tall that took him 3 years to make

Question 6

What other art is Michelangelo famous for?

Answer 6

He painted the Sistine chapel in Rome by applying water colours to wet plaster, so the art became part of the ceiling.

Question 7

who was Leonardo De Vinci?

Answer 7

Leonardo de Vinci was a great painter, scientist, engineer and inventor

Question 8

What amazing things did Leonardo have in his journals?

Answer 8

Leonardo had drawings for helicopters, tanks, parachutes, and a flying machine.

Question 9

How did Leonardo find out about the human body?

Answer 9

He dissected corpses (dead bodies) which was illegal, and drew their pictures.

Question 10

What was odd about Leonardo’s writing?

Answer 10

He wrote back to front so it has to be read in a mirror.

Question 11

How did women become artists?

Answer 11

Women only became artists if their families supported them, they might learn from their fathers etc. They were only noblewomen.

Question 12

How were books made in the Middle ages?

Answer 12

Books were copied out by hand, by monks, during the Middle ages so were rare and valuable.

Question 13

How did education change in the Renaissance?

Answer 13

More people became educated in humanist ideals

Question 14

What revolutionized the spread of the new ideas and information?

Answer 14

the printing press spread material to read quickly and cheaply, so ideas spread more easily.

Question 15

Who built the first printing press?

Answer 15

Johannes Gutenberg in Germany in 1450

Question 16

What material were books printed on in the Renaissance?

Answer 16

Paper was now used instead of parchment (dried sheepskin)

Question 17

Who was now able to own books?

Answer 17

Middle class, not just the rich, were able to own books after the printing press was invented.

Question 18

How did the printing press help libraries?

Answer 18

Libraries could own more books now that they were cheaper

Question 19

How did the language of books change?

Answer 19

Books used to only be in Latin (the language of the Church), but now they were written in languages of the common people.

Question 20

What was this “Information Revolution?”

Answer 20

the information revolution was that with the printing press ideas were spread amongst the everyday middle class people, who became more educated.

Question 21

Who was Durer?

Answer 21

Durer was a German artist who travelled to Italy, then wrote a text book on perspective and proportion.

Question 22

How did Durer’s book change things?

Answer 22

Durer’s book popularized, made common, the ideas of the Renaissance?

Question 23

What contribution did northern artists make to Renaissance art?

Answer 23

Northern artists developed oil paint, which gave brilliant, long lasting colour

Question 24

How did northern art differ?

Answer 24

Northern artists tended to focus on realistic representations of nature, and peasant life.

Question 25

What was the scientific revolution in the Renaissance?

Answer 25

the scientific revolution lasted for centuries but started in the Renaissance when scientists realized they could learn a lot by observation.

Question 26

How was scientific thinking different from their past?

Answer 26

In the past, the bible explained all thinking, and explanations supported religious teachings.

Question 27

Who invented the scientific method?

Answer 27

Leonardo de Vinci invented the scientific method.

Question 28

what is the scientific method?

Answer 28

careful observation and recording of data is the scientific method.

Question 29

Who was Copernicus?

Answer 29

Copernicus, lived in Poland, and use math to calculate orbits of planet around the sun.

Question 30

What three new ways of looking at the earth and sun did Copernicus develop?

Answer 30

1. the sun is one of many stars with their own planets, 2. the earth revolves around the sun 3. the earth revolves on its own axis.

Question 31

What was Copernicus’ book called?

Answer 31

On the Revolutions of the Celestial Spheres, which he got a copy of just before he died.

Question 32

What did the church think of Copernicus’ book?

Answer 32

The church condemned his book, but too many copies had already been printed for them to destroy them all.

Question 33

Who was Galileo Galilei?

Answer 33

Galileo read Copernicus’ book, and eyeglass maker Lippershey’s work to build a telescope with a 30x magnification

Question 34

What did Galileo confirm?

Answer 34

Galileo confirmed Copernicus’ ideas about the earth and sun

Question 35

What did the church do to Galileo?

Answer 35

He was called before the Inquisition and forced to recant (deny) his research, which he did, but spent the rest of his life under house arrest.

Question 36

What is Galileo called?

Answer 36

Galileo is called the father of modern physics.