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
