Question | Answer |
What was the Renaissance man's favorite subject? | Man (himself) |
Name the 7 humanities that were taught. | literature, philosophy, art, history, grammar, speech |
What was the goal of Renaissance education? | to make the student well rounded |
Who were major supporters of the arts? | wealthy nobles, wealthy merchants, the church |
What was the first book printed by Gutenberg? | the Bible |
Name 3 seas that surround Italy. | Adriatic Sea, Ionian Sea, and Tyrrhenian Sea |
Which mountain range runs down the center of Italy? | Apennines |
What knowledge most helped artists with giving the appearance of depth to their paintings? | Math |
Who sculpted the statue of David? | Michaelangelo |
Name 3 things used by Renaissance artists to make their work more life like. | Study of anantomy, use of perspective, use of shading |
Name 3 reasons the church needed more money during the Renaissance period. | support expensive lifestyle of Vatican, to build cathedrals, to decorate cathedrals |
Why did Medieval music have to be memorized? | Because musical notation had not been developed |
The Frenceh word Renaissance comes from a word that means what? | rebirth |
The native language spoken by the people of an area is called the __________________. | vernacular |
The __________________ was the name given to the subjects taught during the Renaissance. | humanities |
The _________________ is the name given to the pope's residence. | Vatican |
What was the name given to the people who disagreed with the Catholic Church? | heretics |
What were the people called who supported the arts and hired artists to work for them? | patrons |
What is the name of the services that the monks chanted and sang for 8 times daily? | offices |
Did Renaissance artists prefer relief sculptures or freestanding statues? | freestanding statues |
Why haven't the Alps in the north of Italy protected it from invasion? | because there are mountain passages through |
What is the vernacular language of Germany? | German |
Did the Roman Catholic Church like or dislike the revival of education and the arts? | like |
What happened to a person if he did not repent during the Inquistion? | he was killed |
Did the Roman Catholic Church ever have a papal schism that divided it for a time? | yes |
How did Renaissance architects feel about the Gothic style? | they didn't like it |
Did Leonardo DiVinci experiment with cameras? | no |
Did vernacular writing help divide Europe into nations? | yes |
Name the tribunal founded to suppress heresy. | Inquistion |
What was the fight over which of two men should be pope called? | the Great Schism |
Who was the greatest English writer of the Renaissance? | William Shakespeare |
Who wrote the Canterbury Tales? | Geoffrey Chaucer |
Who was the father of Humanism? | Petrarch |
Who painted the ceiling of the Sistine Chapel? | Michaelangelo |
Who invented a movable-type printing press? | Johannes Gutenberg |
What is the name of the period of renewed interest in classical Greece and Rome? | Renaissance |
Who painted the Mona Lisa? | Leonardo da Vinci |
Who wrote the Divine Comedy? | Dante |
What 3 methods did Renaissance artists use to make their art look more life like? | shading (helps to see where light is coming from & makes objects look round), perspective (helps determine distance by making objects farther away seem smaller & closer objects seem bigger), studying anatomy (could make the human body look more realistic) |
How did Renaissance learning help medieval people? | people started studying and exploring God's creation, especially humans |
How did Renaissance learning hurt medieval people? | lead to humanism in which the people were more interested in themselves than God |