Renaissance Quiz

Question 1

Lorenzo de Medici

Answer 1

famous for support of the arts

Question 2

Francesco Petrarch

Answer 2

father of humanism and renaissance

Question 3

Leonardo da Vinci

Answer 3

famous for painting the mona lisa, also sketches of undersea boats and flying machines

Question 4

Michelangelo

Answer 4

Sculptor, engineer, painter, poet–famous for statue of david,ceiling of sistine chapel, and the dome of st. peters catherdral

Question 5

Raphael

Answer 5

famous for painting potrayals of modanna, mother of jesus

Question 6

Baldassare Castiglione

Answer 6

italian renissance writer

Question 7

Niccolo Machiavelli

Answer 7

wrote book on how to gain/maintain power,

Question 8

patron

Answer 8

financial supporter

Question 9

Humansim

Answer 9

focused on wordly subjects rather than religious issues, belived education should stimulate an indivisuals creative powers

Question 10

humanities

Answer 10

subjects taught in ancient greece/rome

Question 11

perspective

Answer 11

making distant objecgt smaller than those close to the viewer, 3 dimentional paintings

Question 12

Albert Durer

Answer 12

spread renissance ideals to germany, belgium, and the netherlands

Question 13

jan van Eyck

Answer 13

painter from flanders,developed oil paint,bright colors on hard surfaces

Question 14

William Shakespeare

Answer 14

wrote 37 plays, 1700 words appeared for the first time through his works

Question 15

Johann Gutenberg

Answer 15

First printing press

Question 16

Vernacular

Answer 16

everday language

Question 17

Utopian

Answer 17

peace and harmony

Question 18

Protestant Reformation

Answer 18

a religious
movement in the 1500’s that split the
Christian church in western Europe and led
to the establishment of a number of new churches

Question 19

Martin Luther

Answer 19

German
monk and professor of
theology (religion) at University of Wittenberg, One of the many leaders of Protestant Reformation.

Question 20

Peace of Augsburg

Answer 20

allowed german princes to choose religion after charles v failed to force princes back into catholic churches

Question 21

John Calvin

Answer 21

calvanist

Question 22

John Knox

Answer 22

laid grounds for presbyterian church

Question 23

Indulgence

Answer 23

pardons issued by the pope that people could buy to reduce a souls time in pergatory(people could buy forgivness)

Question 24

Recant

Answer 24

someone that no longer holds an opinion or belief

Question 25

Predestination

Answer 25

Belived god knew who would be saved even before they were born

Question 26

what is the renissance

Answer 26

time of creativity/change-political, social, economical, religious The way people viewed themselves and the world Means rebirth

Question 27

differences in architecture, new paiting techniques, new innovations

Answer 27

architecture- rejected gothic style/ replaced with coumns, arches, and domes new techniques- perspective, shading, live models

Question 28

how and by who does the renissance spread

Answer 28

spread by Albrecht Durer after he traveled to italy in 1494 and learned painting and engraving then brought the information back home to germany, belgiumm, and the netherlands

Question 29

humanism correlation to the renissance

Answer 29

before the renissance they focused on religion and the past but when humanism came along it made a big impact because it was all about inspiration.

Question 30

renissance in relation to time period

Answer 30

renissance supported age of exploration, begun in 14th century at the end of the dark ages, renissance was all about creativity and change so it was after the dark ages

Question 31

who were the renissance men

Answer 31

people with talent in many feilds

Question 32

what were the renissance men's greatest acheivments

Answer 32

leonardo da vinci- mona lisa, undersea boats and flying machines michelango- statue of david, celing of sistine chapel, popular architecture done at st. peters cathedral raphel-popular painting portays of modonna, mother of jesus

Question 33

why did the renissance start in italy?

Answer 33

people were interested in the culture of ancient rome(italy was the center of the roman empire) itialian cities survived dark ages florence, venice, milan were all centers of trade/maufacturing

Question 34

what is the renissance

Answer 34

time of creativity/change-political, social, economical, culteral -the way people viewed themselves and the world means rebirth