Renaissance

Question 1

Who os a patron

Answer 1

A person who pays an artist to produce a work of art

Question 2

What is Renaissance

Answer 2

A time when people began to take a new interest in the world of Ancient Greece and Rome

Question 3

What is humanism

Answer 3

Humanism puts humans in the centre of everything

Question 4

What is an icon p

Answer 4

A painting of a religious subject as an object if worship and prayer usually painted on wood

Question 5

What is anatomy

Answer 5

The study of the human body

Question 6

What is perspective

Answer 6

Adding depth into a picture

Question 7

What is a canvas

Answer 7

Cloths from which sails are made. It makes a good surface for paintings when stretched out

Question 8

What is fresco

Answer 8

A picture painted straight onto a wall or ceiling. The paint is applied to wet plaster

Question 9

What is sfumato

Answer 9

A new technique using tiny brushes to blend areas into eachother

Question 10

What where the influences/reasons the renaissance was in Florence Italy

Answer 10

It was the old Roman Empire
Influence off geek scholars
Influence of new ideas from Chinese and arbs
Wealthy Italian merchants 
Independent city states

Question 11

What did Leonardo da Vinci call his perfect man

Answer 11

The virtruvian man

Question 12

Who invented printing

Answer 12

The Chinese but it was Johannes Gutenberg in Europe who invented a printing press which used moveable type. He produced his forst book in Europe which was the bible.

Question 13

What language where most manuscripts in in the Middle Ages

Answer 13

Latin

Question 14

What style of architecture replaced the gothic style during the renaissance

Answer 14

The renaissance style replaced the gothic style during the renaissance

Question 15

What are some examples of gothic style

Answer 15

Spires
Pointed arches
Flying buttresses

Question 16

What are examples of Renaissance architecture

Answer 16

Domes
Round arches
Pediments and columns

Question 17

What the Canterbury tales

Answer 17

It was written by carver and was one of the first books written that wasn’t the bible

Question 18

What where the advantages of having a movable type writer

Answer 18

Books Became cheaper
New ideas spread more easily
Writers began to write. In the everyday language - vernacular

Question 19

Give an example of a renaissance writer

Answer 19

William Shakespeare was a renaissance writer
He was born in England in Stratford-upon-Avon
He wrote Romeo and Juliet, Macbeth, hamlet and othello

Question 20

A paragraphs about medicine in the renaissance

Answer 20

During Middle Ages people used herbal medicine. He most common cure for any illness was blood-letting. The Catholic Church banned cutting up dead bodies so nobody knew what the body actually looked like on the inside so the pictures of the human skeleton whee inaccurate.
Vesalius was a professor of anatomy who held public dissections. His book ‘On the Fabric of the Human Body’ had 270 drawing of the human body. William Harvey an English doctor, showed that the heart pumped blood around the ,body. He developed theories on the circulation of the blood

Question 21

Astronomy paragraph

Answer 21

In the Middle Ages people believed that the earth was at the centre of the universe as the church supported this theory. Copernicus, a Polish priest, worked that the earth revolved around the sun
Galileo , born in Italy, believed the law of nature could be proved by calculation and experiment. He called one theory the law of bodies. This proved that solid objects fall at the same speed no matter the weight. Galileo designed and built a powerful telescope. He was the first person to study the skies. Galileo realised that Copernicus was right. His theories were banned by the church. He was forced to admit thathe was wrong or punished by the church

Question 22

What was the importance of the renaissance

Answer 22

New skills and discoveries such as art techniques like sfumato and perspective, medicine study like anatomy and blood circulation and science theories to find out that the sun revolved around the sun.

Invention of printing made books more available and cheaper, they encouraged more people to read and write and ideas spread more equally.

Confidence grew because people began to think for themselves and challenge old ideas of geography and the human body

People questioned the church and caused the reformation

Question 23

What is a pediment

Answer 23

Structure (picture sculpture thing) in architecture usually triangular that is supported by columns