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History
The Renaissance 1st year
Question | Answer |
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What does Renaissance mean ? | Rebirth |
What does humanism mean? | A change of mindset from focus on god to focusing on human knowledge |
Whats a patron? | A patron is a wealthy person who hired an artist to produce them art work |
Who spent loads of money to beutify churches and cathedrals | Julius 2 |
What does fresco mean? | fresh |
what does sfumato mean ? | smoky |
Whats perspective mean in a painting? | perspective in a painting is adding depth and distance to a painting |
whats an anatomy ? | the study of the structure of the human body |
whats the moveable type printing press? | a method of printing books by placing metal letters into a frame to form words than coating them with ink |
whats a vernacular language? | the language spoken by the native people of a country . |
Whats the inquisition? | a church court |
Whats heresy? | Going against the teachings of the church knowingly. |
Give me 5 reasons on why the renaissance started in Italy. and explain in ur own words. | -The ruins of the Roman Empire -The fall of constantinople in 1453 -wealth from trade -new ideas from trade -competition between italian city states |
Name 1 Artist from the renaissance and 2 piecies of work they did | Leonardo Da vinci and the mona lisa , last supper |
When was Leonardo Da vinci born? | 1452 |
When did Leonardo Da vinci die? | 1519 |
Name 1 of Micheal angelos famous sculptures | David |
when was Michealangelo born | 1475 |
What famous ceiling did michealangelo paint? | Sistine Chapel |
Who is Johannes Gutenburg? | He is a german goldsmith |
Who invented the movable type printing press | Johannes Gutenburg |
Who is William shakespeare? | He is considered one of the greatest writers ever in the english language. |
Who began to investigate the anatomy? | Andreas Vesalius |
Who discovered that the heart pumped blood around the body? | William Harvey |
What discovery did William harvey make? | He discovered that the heart pumped blood. |
Who improved the telescope | Galileo Galilei |
What book did Nicolaus copernicus write? | Heavenly spheres |