Ren Pt.1 People

Question 1

Dante Alighieri

Answer 1

Best known for writing the Devine comedy.

Question 2

Donatello

Answer 2

A sculptor

Sculpted the statue of David out of bronze.

Question 3

Lorenzo de’ Medici

Answer 3

Italian banker and politician
Financially supported new artists
One of the wealthiest people of his time.

Question 4

Sandro Botticelli

Answer 4

Italian painter
Painted the Sistine Chapel
Painted the birth of Venus

Question 5

Leonardo da Vinci

Answer 5

Painter, sculptor, architect, inventor, and military engineer
Painted the last supper and the Mona Lisa
Studied the human body.
Sketched human organs.

Question 6

Michelangelo

Answer 6

Regarded as the most famous artist in the Italian renaissance.
Painted the Sistine chapel
Second David Sculptor

Question 7

Raphael

Answer 7

Known for his madonas
Painted in the Sistine Chapel
Painted the School of Athens

Question 8

Niccolo Machiavelli

Answer 8

Wrote “The Prince”

The father of modern political theory.

Question 9

Caravaggio

Answer 9

Painter

Used Dramatic Light and Dark.

Question 10

Johannes Gutenberg

Answer 10

German inventor known for creating the printing press

Question 11

Albrecht Dürer

Answer 11

Regarded as the greatest german artist of his time.

Question 12

Desiderius Erasmus

Answer 12

Christian humanist & philosopher

Wrote about humanism

Question 13

Jan van Eyck

Answer 13

famous oil painter, artist, and portraitist from the Netherlands

Question 14

Geoffrey Chaucer

Answer 14

Wrote the unfinished work, The Canterbury Tales

Question 15

William Tyndale

Answer 15

One of the leading reformers

translated the Bible into English!

Question 16

William Shakespeare

Answer 16

famous Renaissance writer in England
one of the greatest writers of all time
Personal life was a secret

Question 17

John Milton

Answer 17

English poet & historian

Wrote the epic poem “paradise lost”

Question 18

Marco Polo

Answer 18

Traveled to China and discovered Chinese silk & spices

Wrote “Wonders of the world”

Question 19

Bartolomeu Dias

Answer 19

Portuguese explorer who sailed around the southernmost tip of Africa in 1488

Question 20

Christopher Columbus

Answer 20

Sailed across the Atlantic Ocean in 1492

Question 21

John Cabot

Answer 21

Landed in Canada in 1497, mistaking it for Asia, & claimed it as British land

Question 22

John Cabot

Answer 22

Portuguese explorer who was the first European to reach India by sea in 1499

Question 23

Vasco de Gama

Answer 23

Portuguese explorer who was the first European to reach India by sea in 1499

Question 24

Amerigo Vespucci

Answer 24

Discovered America

Question 25

Juan Ponce de León

Answer 25

Led the first official European expedition to Florida in 1513
First governer of Puerto Rico

Question 26

Ferdinand Magellan

Answer 26

Led the first European voyage of discovery to circumnavigate the globe from 1519-1522

Question 27

Hernán Cortés

Answer 27

Spanish conquistador who defeated the Aztec empire in 1519 & claimed Mexico for Spain

Question 28

Jacques Cartier

Answer 28

He is known for giving Canada its name & claiming it as French land

Question 29

Hernando De Soto

Answer 29

The first European to lead an extensive journey through the modern-day United States from 1539-1541

Question 30

Sir Francis Drake

Answer 30

Circumnavigated the globe, helped defeat the Spanish Armada of 1588