Renaissance Test Flashcards
The renaissance spanned between:
14th and 17th centuries
What does the term renaissance mean?
The term mean “rebirth” or “renewal”
The renaissance started in____________and worked its way
____________through Europe. Florence Italy, north and east
The philosophy centered around the belief that man is the center of his own universe started what movement?
HUMANISM
This artist and scholar created scientific studies of flying machines, inventions ideas, and the human anatomy:
Leonardo Da Vinci
How did he learn the human anatomy?
Human atuopsies
Name two famous da Vinci painting
Mona Lisa
The last supper
What are the three defining characteristics of humanism?
Encouraged to question conventional wisdom
Encouraged to be curious/experimentation
Invention encouraged
Who built a telescope that proved the earth and other planets revolved around the sun.
Galileo
What did Galileo discover by dropping different sized cannon ball of the side of a building?
That all objects fall at the same rate of speed
This masterd liner perspective
Brunelleschi
Important invention to learned to read and right
Moveable printing press
Who invented the printing press
Jonas Gutenberg
Before the printing press responsible for righting books
Monks, clergy of the church
Type of flag that was flown horizontally from the end of a spear is called a:
Pennon