Renaissance

Question 1

What are the 4 different characteristics that humanists believed in

Answer 1

1. Humans can use the power of reason to find truth for themselves.
2. It is important to have an open, curious, and questioning mind.
3. Humans can achieve great things through learning.
4. Individuals can be skilled in many different areas.

Question 2

Civic

Answer 2

Relating to citizenship or civic affairs

Question 3

Sonnet

Answer 3

A poetic form that consists of 14 lines

Question 4

Patron

Answer 4

A person who pays an artist to produce work

Question 5

Vernacular

Answer 5

The language commonly spoken by the people of that region

Question 6

Civic

Answer 6

Means “citizen”

Question 7

Pieta

Answer 7

A sculpture that represents the virgin Mary mourning over the dead body of Jesus

Question 8

Aqueducts

Answer 8

A water course that transports water from a source to a far away distribution

Question 9

Philosophers

Answer 9

A person who studies truth and the human condition

Question 10

Scholar

Answer 10

A person who is highly educated

Question 11

Humanist Education

Answer 11

Believed it was important to train the character, mind and body

Question 12

Civic Humanist

Answer 12

The application of learned culture to political life

Question 13

Renaissance

Answer 13

A time of the revival of Classical learning and wisdom after a long period of cultural decline.

Question 14

Rhetoric

Answer 14

The art of persuasive talking of writing

Question 15

Symmetry

Answer 15

Correct or pleasing proportion of the parts of a thing

Question 16

What did humanists believe in?

Answer 16

Humanism is belief in the dignity and potential of the individual

Question 17

What is humanism

Answer 17

A philosophy of life that considers the welfare of humankind