Renaissance

Question 1

Boccaccio

Answer 1

The Decameron.

Question 2

Chaucer

Answer 2

Canterbury Tales.

Question 3

Dante

Answer 3

Father of modern Italian.

Question 4

Machiavelli

Answer 4

Where the end justifies the means.

The Prince.

Question 5

Rabelais

Answer 5

Gar Pen.

Satirized education politics and philosophy.

Question 6

Montaigne

Answer 6

Skepticism.

Question 7

Cervantes

Answer 7

Ridiculed feudal society. DQ.

Question 8

Shakespeare

Answer 8

The greatest poet of all time

Question 9

Milton

Answer 9

“Paradise Lost”

Question 10

Moliere

Answer 10

“The Misanthrope”

Question 11

Giotto

Answer 11

Frescoes

Question 12

Donatello

Answer 12

Carved busts

Question 13

Da Vinci

Answer 13

Renaissance man

Question 14

Michelangelo

Answer 14

Renaissance genius

Question 15

Titian

Answer 15

Used vivid colors.

Question 16

Palestrina

Answer 16

Composer of church music

Question 17

El Greco

Answer 17

Greek who settled in Spain. Painted religious scenes and church officials

Question 18

Valasquez

Answer 18

Painter to King Philip

Question 19

Hals

Answer 19

Painted portraits of ordinary peoples and everyday life

Question 20

Rembrandt

Answer 20

Greatest painter Northern Renaissance

Question 21

Rubens

Answer 21

Used brilliant colors. Depicted action.

Question 22

Durer

Answer 22

Wood and metal

Question 23

Holbein

Answer 23

Painter for Henry. Life like portraits of famous people

Question 24

Copernicus

Answer 24

Rediscovers the heliocentric theory.

Question 25

Vesalius

Answer 25

Anatomy

Question 26

Bacon

Answer 26

Observation and experimentation

Question 27

Galileo

Answer 27

Improved the telescope

Question 28

Harvey

Answer 28

Blood circulated through the body

Question 29

Middle Ages

Answer 29

Faith. Authority. Tradition. Life is only a preparation for the here after. Preoccupation with religion and church

Question 30

Renaissance

Answer 30

``` Reason Question authority Free inquiry Stressed individual Approved of worldly pleasure Life itself is worthwhile Paid attention to matters of secular society ```

Question 31

Descartes

Answer 31

Optics | Analytical geometry

Question 32

Leeuwenhoek

Answer 32

Perfected the microscope

Question 33

Newton

Answer 33

Law of motion and gravitation. Invented calculus.