Period 4 Test

Question 1

Renaissance

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A movement that started in Italy that caused an explosion of creativity in art, writing, and thought

Question 2

What does the word “Renaissance” mean?

Answer 2

Rebirth

Question 3

Medici family

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A powerful banking family that ruled Florence during the Renaissance

Question 4

Cosimo de Medici

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Won control of Florence’s government and served as dictator

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Lorenzo de Medici

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Ruled as dictator of Florence but kept the appearance that there was a republic

Question 6

Humanism

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An intellectual movement that focused on human potential and achievements

Question 7

Secular

Answer 7

Concerned with worldly rather than spiritual matters

Question 8

Baldassare Castiglione

Answer 8

Wrote The Courtier, which talked about the Renaissance man and woman

Question 9

Renaissance man

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Should be charming, witty, smart, skilled in the arts and athletics

Question 10

Renaissance woman

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Should know the classics, ve charming, and should inspire art but not create it

Question 11

Isabella d’Este

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Born into a ruling family in the city-state of Ferrara and built a famous art collection and was skilled in politics

Question 12

What was a major change in artistic style?

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Artists began to reveal what was distinct about each person

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Perspective

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A technique that shows 3 dimensions on a flat surface

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Michelangelo

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Sculptor, poet, architect, and painter that used a realistic style when depicting the human body

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DonatelloD

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Made sculptures more realistic by carving natural postures and expressions, like the statue David

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Leonardo da Vinci

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Painter, sculptor, inventor, and scientist that was interested in how things worked

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Raphael

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Filled the walls of Pope Julius’s library with paintings including the School of Athens

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Sofonisba Anguissola

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First woman artist to gain an international reputation and was known for portraits of sisters and prominent people

Question 19

Artemisia Gentileschi

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Accomplished woman artist who trained with her father and painted portraits of strong, heroic women

Question 20

Francesco Petrarch

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A great poet from Italy who wrote many sonnets in his vernacular

Question 21

Giovanni Boccaccio

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wrote the Decameron, a series of realistic and sometimes off-color stories about young people in a rural villa that were trying to avoid the plague

Question 22

Niccolo Machiavelli

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Wrote The Prince, which was about how a ruler and gain power and keep it in spite of enemies

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Vittoria Colonna

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Wrote poems that expressed personal emotions and exchanged sonnets with Michelangelo and helped Castiglones publish The Courtier

Question 24

Reason for spread of Renaissance to the north 1/2

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A French king of the Naples launched an invasion into northern Italy which caused Italian artists and writers to flee to Northern Europe for a safer life

Question 25

Reason for spread of Renaissance to the north 2/2

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Northern artists who studied in Italy brought Renaissance ideas back with them

Question 26

Alabrecht Durer

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German artist who produced woodcuts and engravings that portrayed both religious subjects and classical myths or realistic landscapes

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Hans Holbein the Younger

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German artist who specialized in painting portraits almost photographic in detail

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Flanders

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The artistic center of Northern Europe

Question 29

Jan van Eyck

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Flemish Renaissance painter who used oil-based paints to develop new techniques

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Pieter Bruegel the Elder

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Flemish painter who was interested in realistic details and individual people and was very skillful in portraying large numbers of people

Question 31

Christian humanism

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A new movement that focused on the reform of society

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Desiderus Erasmus

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Christian humanist who wrote The Praise of Folly, which posed fun at greedy merchants, heartsick lovers, quarrelsome scholars, and pompous priests

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Thomas More

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Christian humanists who wrote Utopia, which about an imaginary land where greed, corruption, and war have been weeded out

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Christine de Pizan

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A highly educated woman that was one of the first females to earn a living as a writer and questioned the different treatment of boys and girls

Question 35

William Shakespeare

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The most famous writer of the Elizabethan age

Question 36

Elizabethan Age

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When the Renaissance spread to England

Question 37

Johann Gutenberg

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A craftsman from Germany that developed a printing press so that it was more efficient and cheap to produce printed books