MT 3 - Renaissance & Reformation (people)

Question 1

Dante Alighieri

Answer 1

wrote “Divine Comedy” in Italian vernacular

Question 2

Brunelleschi

Answer 2

Italian architect - church of “San Lorenzo”

Question 3

de ‘Medici Family

Answer 3

powerful family that controlled Florence politics

Question 4

Geoffrey Chaucer

Answer 4

wrote “Canterbury Tales” in English vernacular

Question 5

Raphael

Answer 5

Italian painter - famous for Madonnas (baby Jesus and mother Mary)

Question 6

Niccolo Machiavelli

Answer 6

wrote “The Prince” - about effective leadership

Question 7

Michelangelo

Answer 7

Italian painter & sculptor - ceiling of “Sistine Chapel”

Question 8

Johannes Gutenberg

Answer 8

invented the movable type on the printing press

Question 9

Masaccio

Answer 9

Italian painter - frescoes - first to embrace perspective

Question 10

Leonardo da Vinci

Answer 10

Italian painter, sculptor, & inventor - painting of “Mona Lisa”, sculpture of “David” - dissected human bodies to learn about proportions

Question 11

Francisco Petrach

Answer 11

father of humanism - old Greek & Roman manuscripts

Question 12

Donatello

Answer 12

Italian sculptor - statute of “St. George”

Question 13

Jan Van Eyck

Answer 13

Dutch painter - oil paints (bright colors and great detail) - known for “Giovanni Arnolfini and his Bride”

Question 14

Martin Luther

Answer 14

German Catholic monk - salvation is through faith alone, against selling of indulgences, 95 Theses, started Lutheranism

Question 15

Albrecht Dürer

Answer 15

German sculptor & etching - painting of “Adoration of the Magi” etching of “the Four Horsemen and the Apocalypse”

Question 16

John Calvin

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French protestant - created Calvinism, theory of predestination, moral society

Question 17

Henry VIII

Answer 17

six wives - wanted an annulment from 1st wife, Catherine of Aragon - wanted a male heir

Question 18

Catherine of Aragon

Answer 18

1st wife of Henry VIII - mother of Mary I - only one daughter - marriage annulled

Question 19

Mary I

Answer 19

1st child of Henry VIII - 2nd heir of Henry VIII - wanted to restore Catholicism to England

Question 20

Anne Boleyn

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2nd wife of Henry VIII - mother of Elizabeth I - only one daughter - beheaded for treason

Question 21

Edward VI

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3rd child of Henry VIII - 1st heir of Henry VIII - died at a young age - son of Henry VIII’s third wife (Jane Seymore)

Question 22

Elizabeth I

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2nd child of Henry VIII - 2nd heir of Henry VIII - ruled almost 50 years as a Protestant monarch - led Britain into a superpower

Question 23

Ignatius of Loyola

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Spanish Catholic nobleman - created Society of Jesus - Catholic missionaries

Question 24

anabaptists

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protestants - very strict - adult baptism - separation of church and state - refused to hold political office or bear arms (Quakers, Puritans, Shakers) - thought as radicals

Question 25

Jesuits

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members of Society of Jesus - missionaries of Catholicism

Question 26

Castiglione

Answer 26

wrote the book “the Courtier” - describing good qualities of a nobleman