Vocabulary

Question 1

Renaissance

Answer 1

The humanistic revival of classical art, architecture, literature, and learning that originated in Italy in the 14th century and later spread throughout Europe.

Question 2

Milan

Answer 2

city in Italy

Question 3

Venice

Answer 3

A city of northeast Italy on islets within a lagoon in the Gulf of Venice, an inlet of the Adriatic Sea.

Question 4

Florence

Answer 4

City in central Italy on the Arno River.

Question 5

Rome

Answer 5

Capital of Italy, largest city in the country.

Question 6

Medici Family

Answer 6

Italian noble family that produced three pope.

Question 7

Humanism

Answer 7

an outlook or system of thought attaching prime importance to human rather than divine or supernatural matters.

Question 8

Machiavelli

Answer 8

Italian statesman, political philosopher, and author.

Question 9

Perspective

Answer 9

a picture employing this technique, especially one in which it is prominent.

Question 10

Gutenberg

Answer 10

German printer: credited with invention of printing from movable type.

Question 11

Erasmus

Answer 11

Dutch humanist, scholar, theologian, and writer.

Question 12

William Shakespeare

Answer 12

English poet and dramatist.

Question 13

Sir Thomas More

Answer 13

an English lawyer, social philosopher, author, statesman and noted Renaissance humanist.

Question 14

Flemish

Answer 14

the people of Flanders.

Question 15

Michelangelo

Answer 15

Italian sculptor, painter, architect, and poet.

Question 16

John Van Eyck

Answer 16

an Early Netherlandish painter active in Bruges and one of the most significant Northern Renaissance artists of the 15th century.

Question 17

Albert Durer

Answer 17

a painter, printmaker, and theorist of the German Renaissance.

Question 18

Fresco

Answer 18

a painting done rapidly in watercolor on wet plaster on a wall or ceiling

Question 19

Indulgences

Answer 19

the action or fact of indulging.

Question 20

Predestination

Answer 20

the divine foreordaining of all that will happen, especially with regard to the salvation of some and not others.

Question 21

Reformation

Answer 21

a 16th-century movement for the reform of abuses in the Roman Catholic Church ending in the establishment of the Reformed and Protestant Churches.

Question 22

Martin Luther

Answer 22

A sixteenth-century German religious leader; the founder of Protestantism.

Question 23

Henry the 8th

Answer 23

A king of England in the early sixteenth century.

Question 24

John Calvin

Answer 24

French theologian and reformer in Switzerland.

Question 25

Huguenots

Answer 25

a French Protestant of the 16th–17th centuries.