Chapter 8: The Renaissance

Question 1

Renaissance

Answer 1

The rebirth of European interest in the civilisation of Ancient Greece and Rome. During the Renaissance, people began to look at the world around them in new ways, the questioned old ideas from the middle ages and developed new ideas about art, architecture, science, literature and medicine.

Question 2

Humanism

Answer 2

The idea that human beings should be at the centre of everything should be at everything and we should think about the world in terms of the lives people live.

Question 3

Patron

Answer 3

A wealthy person who commissioned (hired) an artist to produce a work of art for them.

Question 4

Perspective

Answer 4

To create depth and distance in a painting

Question 5

Anatomy

Answer 5

The study of the structure of the human body

Question 6

Famous Artists

Answer 6

Michelangelo

Leonardo da Vinci

Question 7

Movable type printing press

Answer 7

A method of printing book that placed individual metal letters into a frame to form words, coated them with ink and pressed the frame onto paper

The first book he printed was the Gutenberg Bible

Question 8

Vernacular

Answer 8

Language as spoken by peope in their native country

Question 9

Inventions and important names

Answer 9

William Harvey discovered that the heart pumped blood around the body.

Andreas Vesalius began to investigate anatomy

Galileo was convicted of heresy for inventing the teliscope and discoverd planets and that Earth wasnt the centre of the universe

Question 10

Heresy

Answer 10

Knowingly holding a view that went against the official teaching of the Catholic Church

Question 11

Causes of the renaissance

Answer 11

The ruins of the roman empire
The fall of Constantinople 
Wealth from trade
New ideas from trade
Competition between Italian city states
Patrons

Question 12

Astronomy

Answer 12

To study the planets and stars