Renaissance Flashcards
Q:What does the word Renaissance mean?
A: Rebirth
Q: Where did the Renaissance begin?
A: Italy
Q: Who did people of the Renaissance become interested in again?
A: The Greeks and Romans
Q: The Renaissance was a period of change in what five things?
A: Literature, art, philosophy, science, and architecture?
Q: What is the art of designing buildings?
A: architecture
Q: What word describes books and writing?
A: Literature
Q: What is the study of life, knowledge, and how we think?
A: philosophy
Q: In Medieval Europe, where did monks live?
A: Monasteries
Q: What poet admired the values of Greece and Rome, and helped start the Renaissance?
A: Petrarch
Q: What is the name of the people who admired and studied Ancient Greece and Rome?
A: Humanists
Q: What is the group of people that were the class between those who worked the land and nobility?
A: Middle-Class
Q: How were patrons rewarded?
A: They became famous.
Q: What was another name for the Eastern Roman Empire when Rome split up?
A: Byzantine
Q: Who was Leonardo da Vinci’s teacher who was rumored to have quit when da Vinci painted an angel so much better than his?
A: Verrochio
Q: Who was the greatest sculptor of the early Renaissance?
A: Donatello
Q: How did Brunelleschi end up getting the Guild to leave him in charge of the Cathedral of Florence?
A: Pretended to be sick, showing that Ghiberti didn’t know what he was doing.
Q: What is the most famous sculpture of Donatello’s called?
A: St. George
Q: What does Botticelli mean in Italian
A: Little Barrel
Q: What is on the base of St. George?
A: St. George battling a dragon
Q: What are Leonardo da Vinci’s two most famous paintings?
A: Mona Lisa and Last Supper
Q: In art, what is a way of showing depth on a flat surface?
A: Perspective
Q: Who painted the School of Athens?
A: Rafael
Q: What family were the most famous patrons of the Renaissance?
A: The Medici Family
Q: Who are artists who design buildings?
A: Architects
Q: Who is the most famous writer in the Renaissance?
A: William Shakespeare
Q: What are people who commissioned artists called?
A: Patrons
Q: What did Leonardo construct out of Terra Cotta for the Duke of Milan?
A: A horse
Q: What happened to Leonardo’s horse?
A: French soldiers used it for target practice.
Q: What military vehicle did Leonardo da Vinci design look like?
A: Tank
Q: What is Leonardo da Vinci’s painting of the dinner he had with his apostles?
A: The Last Supper
Q: What did Leonardo tell the prior who said that he was taking too long?
A: “If you’re in a hurry, then I could always use your face for Judas.”
Q: Where was the Last Supper painted?
A: On the wall of a monastery.
Q: What technique do artists use to make a 2-dimensional painting look like it has depth?
A: Perspective
Q: What was it called when Leonardo wrote everything backwards?
A: Mirror writing
Q: What did people in the Renaissance call Lorenzo de’ Medici?
A: The Magnificent
Q: Who won Lorenzo de’ Medici’s competition to make the best sculpture?
A: Michelangelo
Q:Why did Michelangelo run away from his school a lot?
A: He was more interested in art than scholarly school stuff.
Q: What is the name of the sculpture Michelangelo sculpted of Mary holding her dead son in her lap?
A: Pieta
Q: What is the church in Rome that houses the Pieta?
A: St. Peter’s Basilica
Q: What is the only piece of art that Michelangelo ever signed?
A: Pieta
Q: Why did Michelangelo go back and sign the sash on Mary?
A: He wasn’t happy that a group of visitors didn’t know who sculpted it.
Q: Who ended up becoming a more famous sculptor than Donatello in the Renaissance?
A: Michelangelo
Q: What are paintings on walls or ceilings?
A: Frescos
Q: What church did Michelangelo paint frescos of the old testament in the Bible?
A: Sistine Chapel
Q: Who are people who commissioned artists to make art, sculptures, or literature?
A: Patrons
Q: What is a painting of Mary holding Jesus called?
A: Madonna
Q: What kind of paintings did Rafael paint at least 17 of?
A: Madonnas
