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History(The Renaissance)

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What does renaissance mean?   Rebirth  
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When did the Renaissance begin?   During the late middle ages  
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What years the the renaissance last?   1450 to 1650  
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Where did the renaissance begin?   Italy  
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Give a reason why the renaissance began in Italy   Italians wanted to learn more about ancient Rome.  
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What is a sculptor?   A person who makes statues or carvings out of stone and other objects  
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What is an architect?   A person who plans and designs buildings  
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Name a renaissance city   Florence, Itlay  
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Give two ways in witch medieval paintings differed from renaissance paintings   Medieval paintings were flat + lifeless, renaissance paintings were very lifelike. Medieval art usually dealt with religious objects only,renaissance artists were influenced by humanism + therefore painted secular(non-religious)aswel as religious paintngs  
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Name a famous renaissance painting and its artist   The Mona Lisa, Leonardo DeVinci  
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Who painted Bacchus and Ariadne?   Titan  
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Who painted the school of Athens?   Raphael  
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What is the meaning of the word Fresco?   Fresh  
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Name a Patron of art   The Medici family, Florence  
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Who was Lorenzo di Medici?   A famous patron of the arts during the renaissance  
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Where did he rule?   The city-state of Florence  
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What was the occupation of the Medici's?   Extremely wealthy bankers  
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Who did they loan money to?   Many people including kings and popes  
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When was Lorenzo born?   1449  
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When did he become the ruler of Florence?   When he was 20  
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Lorenzo had other talents apart from banking, what were they?   An athlete and a poet  
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What was Lorenzo also know as?   Lorenzo the magnificent  
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Name two people under Lorenzo's patronage   Leonardo da Vinci(Painted the Mona Lisa) and Michelangelo(Sculpted the statue of David)  
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Who painted the Birth of Venus?   Sandro Botticelli  
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Name a patron of the arts from Rome   Pope Leo X  
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Who sculpted the statue of David?   Michaelangelo  
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Who was Leonardo da Vinci?   A famous painter,inventor and all-round genius  
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What were the years of da Vinci   1452-1519  
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Who was Verrocchio?   Leonardo da Vinci's father  
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Where was da Vinci born   Vinci, Florence, Italy  
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What two paintings did Leonardo da Vinci paint whilst in Milan?   The Virgin of the Rocks and The Last Supper  
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What were Leonardo's notebooks in?   Mirror writing  
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What was mirror writing?   Bach to front, right to left  
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What did da Vinci study?   Biology(plants and animals)  
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What did da Vinci love drawing?   interesting faces(he sometimes followed people until they let him draw them  
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Name two inventions bu Leonrado da Vinci   An aeroplane and a submarine  
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Name two famous architects during the Renaissance   Fillipo Burnelleschi and Andrea Palladio  
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Who was Galileo Galilei?   A professor of matematics  
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What did Galileo do?   He discovered that items of different weights fell at the same speed and he developed the pendulum clock and he discovered that the earth revolved around the sun  
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What the church court do to Galileo   He was imprisoned and threatened with torture because he wrote a book called the dialogue in the vernacular where he contradicted the bible  
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List two facts about women during the renaissance   They were given little education, they were forbidden to attended universities, and forbidden to study the male body  
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Name a famous writer during the Renaissance   William Shakespeare  
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