Chapter 16 - The Renaissance in Italy (Quatrocento)

Question 1

Renaissance

Answer 1

An extraordinary period of art and culture that spread throughout Europe in the 15th and 16th Centuries, inspired by ancient Greek and Roman literature and art

Question 2

Humanism

Answer 2

An intellectual movement in Italy that started in the 14th century. It suggested the ideal of an education based on Greek and Roman thought, emphasizing the value, potential and goodness in humans, which turned away from the medieval God-centred scholarship

Question 3

Where did the ideas of the Renaissance begin?

Answer 3

Florence

Question 4

Patronage

Answer 4

Financial or moral support given to and artist or craftsman by someone with wealth or power, i.e, wealthy private citizens, religious orders, the guilds of Florence or rulers and princes

Question 5

Who were the Medici?

Answer 5

The were a wealthy family who were patrons to artists like Donatello, Botticelli and Michelangelo