Renaissance

Question 1

Father of the Renaissance

Answer 1

Francesco Petrarch is considered the father of the Renaissance because his Humanist philosophy led to the intellectual thinking that created the Renaissance

Question 2

Centre of the Renaissance

Answer 2

Florence Italy

Question 3

Changes in science

Answer 3

The Renaissance laid the groundwork for the Scientific Revolution, as scholars challenged traditional beliefs and methods, paving the way for advancements in astronomy, anatomy, and physics

Question 4

Changes in culture

Answer 4

The Renaissance like had a lasting impact on Western culture, shaping attitudes towards art, education, and individualism, and contributing to the development of modern humanism and secularism

Question 5

Changes in art

Answer 5

The Renaissance produced some of the greatest works of art in history, including masterpieces of painting, sculpture, and architecture that continue to inspire and captivate audiences today. E.g.
Mona Lisa
Michelangelo’s David
Tempietto

Question 6

Art techniques

Answer 6

Sfumato-A way of painting that allows tone and colours to shade gradually into one another
Fresco-painting on a wall or ceiling

Question 7

Patrons

Answer 7

These were wealthy merchants or rulers who paid artists to paint pictures, make sculptures or design buildingS

Question 8

Leonardo da Vinci

Answer 8

Leonardo da Vinci was born in Vinci, near Florence in Italy in 1452.

At the age of fifteen, he was sent to train as an artist’s apprentice in Florence.

He worked with other apprentices in the studio of the famous painter and craftsperson, Andrea del Verrocchio.

Here he learned the skills of painting and sculpture.His first painting of note was one of an angel in the corner of a larger work by Verrocchio called the “Baptist of Christ.” This angel was apparently painted so well that it caused Verrocchio to never paint again.

Leonardo da Vinci was accepted into the Florentine artists’ guild at the age of twenty and spent the next ten years working there, sometimes for Lorenzo de Medici.

In 1482, he went to Milan to work for Ludovico Sforza,

Around this time also, Leonardo da Vinci was creating notebooks full of ideas for tanks, submarines, helicopters and parachutes. These notes were written in ‘mirror writing’ – from right to left.

During his seventeen years in Milan, da Vinci painted only six paintings, including “The Virgin of the Rocks” and “The Last Supper,” which is a fresco painted onto a wall of a monostary in Santa Maria delle Grazie.

In 1499, Leonardo left Milan and went to Florence where, among other work, he painted “The Mona Lisa,” which is now on display in Paris’ Louvre Museum.

Sfumato is used in this painting which is a Renaissance technique which causes the lady’s hair and clothing to blend into the background.

Leonardo da Vinci also studied science, dissecting corpses in his study of anatomy and drawing plants, horses and birds in flight in his effort to further the study of biology.

He died in France, as a guest of King Francis I, in 1519.