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What is portrait?

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A drawing of someone

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What is sfumato?

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A technique of shading

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What is a fresco?

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A painting on a wall or ceiling applied on plaster.

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What is anatomy?

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The study of the body

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What is perspective ?

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How the things in the background are smaller than the things in the front

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When and where did the renaissance begin?

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About in 1400 in Florence

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Why did the renasaince begin?

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Because people questioned how we did things then and thought of better ideas

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How long did the renaissance last?

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200 years

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What is humanism?

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An interest in human beings

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How did the italian merchants get rich?

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They brought silks and spices from Asia and sold them in Europe

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What is a sculpture?

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A statue made of stone, metal and wood

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Name a Renaissance sculptor

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Michelangelo Buonarotti

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Who was the first famous architect of the Renaissance?

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Filippo Brunelleschi

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What was a manuscript?

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A handwritten book

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Why were books so expensive in the renaissance?

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Because they were rare and the process was very slow

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What country invented printing?

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The chinese invented printing

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How did the chinese print books?

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They wood carve the pictures in wood or metal put it in ink and press it on the paper.

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Who invented the moveable type of printing?

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Johannes gutenberg

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What did moveable type mean?

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That you could use the small metal letters over and over again

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What is vernacular literature?

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Literature written in the everyday language

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Who did the middle ages people base their ideas on?

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Galen, an ancient greek scholar

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Why couldn’t we trust Galen’s theories?

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Because he had never dissected any human body

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Why was it difficult for doctors to find out about organs of the human body and how it worked?

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Because the church was aginst cutting up bodies and in the 1300s the pope banned it

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Wgat two renaissance doctors proved that the old theory was wrong?

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Vesalius and Harvey

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What were womens roles in the renaissance?

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To be good housekeepers and wives

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Name one female italian renaissance painter?

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Artemesia Gentileschi she was born in 1593

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Name a renaissance female painter who wasn’t from Italy

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Judith Leyster she is a dutch painter who was born in 1609

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Name an artist outside of Italy and name two of his paintings

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Pieter bruguel is an artist outside of italy and he painted the Gloomy Day and Childrens Games

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Write an account on an Italian painter during the Renaissance 1

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Born in 1452, fathers intensions for his son was a lawyer,
Apprenticed to a Florence artists aged 15
The Mona Lisa first sfumato painting
Last supper painted in milan florence at war paint peels of
Invented cannon, tank etc for Duke of Sforza he was not interested

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Finish the account on a renaissance painter 2

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Discovered the forming of rocks and trees, drew faces everywhere
Worked for king of France, wrote 5000pgs in notebook mirror writing died in 1519

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START an account on a renaissance painter outside of Italy

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Pieter bruegel, born Netherlands around 1525 father was peasant
Apprencticed to painter Pieter Coecke van Aelst married master’s daughter
Went to France and Italy, in 1551 in guild in Antwerp master painter moved to Italy and brussels

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CONTINUE an account of a renaissance painter outside of Italy

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Famous for painting different scenery(poor people) and nature had moral message
Painted Childrens Games and Gloomy days shows games played in sixteenth century
Believed we had no chance in life

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FINISH an account on a renaissance painter outside of Italy

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45 paintings survived, had two sons Pieter and Jan became painters
Died at forty four

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