Renaissance

Question 1

Name a Renaussance painter from outside Italy and one thing he painted

Answer 1

Durer-The Hare

Question 2

Name the characteristics of a Renaissance painting

Answer 2

• Perspective
• Sfumato
• Anatomy
• Nature
• Painting on oil

Question 3

Why were wealthy merchants willing to sponser artists ?

Answer 3

• They had the money to spend on fine buildings and pictures and statues.
• Works of art became status symbols by which wealthy people showed how rich they were

Question 4

What were the effects of the printing press ?

Answer 4

• Books became cheaper, so more people could afford to own them.
• Because books were so common, more people learned to read and write.
• New ideas spread more easily because people could write books about them.

Question 5

Name a Renaissance writer and their work

Answer 5

William Shakespeare-Romeo and Juliet

Question 6

Explain the term sfumato

Answer 6

Where you add shading to a picture, which makes faces and bodies more lifelike.

Question 7

Explain the term fresco

Answer 7

A picture painted directly onto a wall or a ceiling.

Question 8

Explain the term perspective

Answer 8

Showing that things further away from us look smaller than things that are close

Question 9

Explain the term humanism

Answer 9

The Renaissance way of looking at the world where human beings are the centre of everthing.

Question 10

Name a discovery in science or medicine

Answer 10

Nicholas Copernicus-the sun was in the centre of our universe not Earth