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WH Chap 11
THE RENAISSANCE
| Question | Answer |
|---|---|
| What were the reasons that Italy led the Renaissance? | The Italians thought of themselves as Romans and as links with the ancient Roman Empire, Their Cities controlled the Mediterranean trade Routes, and used their wealth to commission artist. |
| The most famous Renaissance Patrons were Members of which family? | de Medici |
| In the fourteenth century, Florentine writers’ study of the classics stirred a rebirth of | a learning in Europe |
| The birthplace of the Renaissance was | Florence |
| Movable-type printing brought about what consequences? | reducing the cost of books dramatically, Eliminating many errors caused by hand printing, rapidly spreading ideas and increasing education |
| The Italian painter Giotto is known for his frescoes, which are | paintings on wet plaster |
| Was Botticelli and architect? | NO |
| Which Renaissance artists exemplify the best of the High Renaissance? | Leonardo, Michelangelo, and Raphael |
| What Italian city, which already controlled the important trade routes to the East became a leading culture city as well | Venice |
| Brunelleschi defeated Ghiberti in a competition to build the | Dome of the Cathedral of Florence |
| The distortion found in Michelangelo’s Pieta? | Christ is portrayed without disfigurement, Mary is too young to be the mother of Christ, Mary is larger than life. |
| Renaissance music was | was more secular than sacred in nature. |
| The ________ was the most popular instrument of the Renaissance? | Lute |
| Who was the leading musician during the Renaissance whose music helped make the transition from medieval to modern music | Josquin |
| The best known composer of Renaissance church music was | Palestrina |
| The secular age of the Renaissance prepared the way for the | Reformation |
| Created a three-dimensional effect by shading | Masaccio |
| Added movement to paintings by the use of bold lines | Botticelli |
| Father of Renaissance Painting | Giotto |
| Technical and scientific designs in a notebook | Leonardo |
| Paintings of sweet faced Madonnas | Raphael |
| Sistine Chapel wall painting The Last Judgment | Michelangelo |
| “little dyer” from Venice | Tintoretto |
| Leading Venetian painter known for portraits and rich colors | ) Titian |
| Twenty-two bronze panels known as the “Gates of Paradise” | Ghiberti |
| First freestanding sculpture | Donatello |
| Created movable-type printing | Gutenberg |
| Genre painter of scenes from everyday life | Brueghel |
| Satire on Chivalry | Cervantes |
| New edition of the Greek New Testament | Erasmus |
| Wrote the Book of Manners | Castiglione |
| Father of Humanism | Petrarch |
| Described an ideal state; adviser to Henry VIII | More |
| Artist who was best known for his engravings and woodcuts | Durer |
| Painted portraits of Henry VIII, More, and Erasmus | Holbein |
| One of the first painters to use oils | Van Eyck |
| The Renaissance focus on man’s worth and capacities has been called | humanism |
| Renaissance is French word meaning | rebirth |
| Which humanist wrote that a successful ruler uses force when necessary, for “it is much safer to be feared than loved” | Machiavelli |
| Who was the most versatile man of the Renaissance? | Leonardo da vinci |
| Who was the Dominican friar who tried to bring reform to the church in Florence? | Savonarola |
| What ceiling depicts in fresco the story of Creation, man’s fall, the Flood, and Redemption? | Sistine Chapel |
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