The Renaissance

Question 1

What’s the word Renaissance mean?

Answer 1

The word means rebirth

Question 2

What is humanism?

Answer 2

A shift in mindset from a focus on God to focus on human knowledge

Question 3

How many causes are there of the Renaissance?

Answer 3

Six

Question 4

What is the first causes of the Renaissance?

Answer 4

The ruins of the Roman Empire

Question 5

How did the ruins of the Roman Empire affect the Renaissance?

Answer 5

Because the architecture and literature inspired the Italian people

Question 6

What is the second cause of the Renaissance?

Answer 6

The fall of Constantinople in 1453

Question 7

How did the fall of Constantinople affect the Renaissance?

Answer 7

Because many Greek people fled to Italy bringing with them priceless, ancient Greek and Roman manuscripts

Question 8

What is the third cause of the Renaissance?

Answer 8

Wealth from trade

Question 9

How did wealth from trade affect the Italian renaissance?

Answer 9

Because they could buy works of art and architecture to demonstrate their wealth

Question 10

What is the fourth cause of the Renaissance?

Answer 10

New ideas from trade

Question 11

How did new ideas from trade affect the Renaissance?

Answer 11

Traders brought back more goods from the east bringing with them ideas such as the Arabic numeric system

Question 12

What is the fifth cause of the Renaissance?

Answer 12

Competition between city states

Question 13

How did competition between city states affect the renaissance?

Answer 13

Because city states would hire artists to build great pieces of art and architecture to display their wealth

Question 14

What is the sixth cause of the renaissance?

Answer 14

Patrons

Question 15

How did patrons affect the renaissance?

Answer 15

Because they created many new pieces of art for the wealthy

Question 16

What is a patron?

Answer 16

A wealthy person who hired an artist to produce a work of art for them

Question 17

What was the most famous family in Italy for being patrons?

Answer 17

The Medici family

Question 18

What was the wealthiest city state in Italy?

Answer 18

Florence

Question 19

What is fresco?

Answer 19

A mediaeval painting technique where you would paint onto wet plaster

Question 20

What painting materials did they use in the mediaeval time?

Answer 20

They used egg Tempera, which was a paint made from egg yolks

Question 21

Which era of art was two dimensional?

Answer 21

Mediaeval

Question 22

What were renaissance paintings focused on?

Answer 22

Humanist beliefs and ancient Roman and Greek mythology

Question 23

What painting materials did Renaissance artists use?

Answer 23

They used oil paint on canvas

Question 24

What was sfumato?

Answer 24

Renaissance painting technique that meant smoky it involve using blurred lines

Question 25

What was perspective?

Answer 25

A technique used in the renaissance time to create depth and distance in a painting

Question 26

What was anatomy?

Answer 26

The study of the human body

Question 27

What was chiaroscuro?

Answer 27

Renaissance painting technique that involved using the contrast between dark and light

Question 28

Who painted the Mona Lisa?

Answer 28

Leonardo da Vinci

Question 29

Who painted the last supper?

Answer 29

Leonardo da Vinci

Question 30

Give two examples of Renaissance man

Answer 30

Leonardo da Vinci and Galileo Galilee

Question 31

Name a Renaissance female artist

Answer 31

Artemisia Gentileschi

Question 32

What is main difference between mediaeval and Renaissance statues

Answer 32

Mediaeval statues were attached to buildings while Renaissance ones were freestanding

Question 33

Which era had more religious statues?

Answer 33

The mediaeval era

Question 34

Which era had clothed statues?

Answer 34

The mediaeval era

Question 35

Why were Renaissance statues mostly naked?

Answer 35

To display the artists knowledge of the human body and skill

Question 36

How do you artist get a better understanding of anatomy?

Answer 36

Dissecting bodies

Question 37

What was Michelangelo?

Answer 37

An artist during the Renaissance

Question 38

Who sculpted the statue of David?

Answer 38

Michelangelo

Question 39

Who painted the Sistine Chapel?

Answer 39

Michelangelo

Question 40

How did the Renaissance spread from outside Italy? Three reasons.

Answer 40

1. Artists visited Italy to learn from Italian Masters. 2. Outside trade with Italy which spread ideas. 3. The invention of the printing press.

Question 41

Who invented the printing press?

Answer 41

Johannes Gutenberg

Question 42

Where was Gutenberg from?

Answer 42

Germany

Question 43

When did Johanne invent the printing press?

Answer 43

Around 1440

Question 44

How did the movable type printing press work?

Answer 44

He would place individual metal letters into a frame to form words, coat them with ink, and press the frame onto paper

Question 45

What was the first book Johannes printed?

Answer 45

The Gutenberg Bible

Question 46

Who are two Renaissance writers?

Answer 46

William Shakespeare and Miguel Cervantes

Question 47

What are the results of the printing press? 5)

Answer 47

1. Printed books were much cheaper than manuscripts, so they were bought often. 2. More people learned to read and write. 3. Fiction became more popular as people started to read for pleasure. 4. The Catholic Church had less control over books that were published. 5. The use of Latin declined as writers wrote in vernacular.

Question 48

What is vernacular?

Answer 48

The language spoken by people in their native country

Question 49

Name to Renaissance physicians

Answer 49

Andreas Vesalius, William Harvey

Question 50

What did Vesalius write?

Answer 50

The first accurate book about the human body

Question 51

What did the church believe regarding space?

Answer 51

They believed everything was created perfectly and that all objects orbited the Earth

Question 52

What is astronomy?

Answer 52

The study of the stars and planets

Question 53

What is a heliocentric model?

Answer 53

A model of our solar system where the Sun is in the middle

Question 54

What is a geocentric model?

Answer 54

A model of our solar system where the Earth is in the middle

Question 55

Who was Galileo Galilee?

Answer 55

An Italian astronomer who discovered craters on the moon and Saturn’s rings

Question 56

Who was Nicola Copernicus?

Answer 56

Polish priest, who declared that the Earth rotates around the Sun his work was the base of Galileos.

Question 57

What did Galileo invent?

Answer 57

An improved version of the telescope and an early thermometer

Question 58

What was the inquisition?

Answer 58

A church court, who would decide if if someone should be accused of blasphemy.

Question 59

What is heresy?

Answer 59

Holding a view that went against the official teachings of the church

Question 60

How was Galileo punished?

Answer 60

He was put on house arrest for his life