Scavenger Hunt Flashcards
True or False? The Medici family were wool merchants and bankers.
True
He was a tutor for the Medici children.
Galileo
How many members of the Medici family were popes?
4
Galileo named four of the moons of Jupiter after what or whom?
Children of the Medici family
Ferdinando Medici was a patron of music. He helped to fund the invention of what musical instrument?
Piano
Why did people drink beer and wine with their meals?
Water would make them sick
What dance was invented in the 15th and 16th centuries?
Ballet
What string instrument was invented during the renaissance?
Violin
List a reason other than expense that meat was hard to get?
You need salt to preserve the meat
What would be reattached to large game birds at feasts or weddings fore the meat decoration?
Feathers
What was dessert called?
Fruit course
What eating utensil was not yet invented?
Fork
What was a doublet?
Snug fitting buttoned jacket
What hair color was considered especially stylish for women?
Blonde
Laws were often passed to keep the lower class from wearing what?
Fancy clothes
Jewish men had to identify themselves by wearing a yellow circle on their shoulders. What did Jewish women have to wear?
Yellow scarf
Why did women wear hats or veils?
To stay pale
Define Polyphony
People singing over each other
This instrument was similar to a violin.
Hurdy Gurdy
This instrument was similar to a guitar.
Lute
What were the 2 types of dances during the Renaissance?
Court dances and country dances
What is considered the most important invention of the Renaissance and possibly in the history of the world?
Printing press
What two things were invented due to the improvements in making lenses?
Telescope and microscope
List any 6 inventions during the Renaissance.
Mechanical clocks, canons, flushing toilets, screwdriver, wallpaper, submarine
Describe The Pieta.
A sculpture by Michelangelo
It is considered Michelangelo’s most famous work of art.
David
In 1505 Michelangelo was commissioned by the pope to paint the ceiling of what chapel?
Sistine chapel
The ceiling he painted contained how may scenes from the bible?
9
The most famous of all the scenes on the ceiling is what?
The creation of adam
List a fact about the 300 people painted on the famous ceiling.
No 2 look alike
What were the names of Shakespeare’s twins?
Judith and Hamnet
This famous theater was originally built by Shakespeare.
The globe
Shakespeare is credited with introducing 3,000 what?
Words to the English language
The School of Athens features philosophers of ancient Greece. Name two
Plato and Aristotle
What has become the most famous part of the Sistine Madonna?
Two angels
Two of Da Vinci’s most famous paintings were the Mona Lisa and the what?
The last supper
How many of Da Vinci’s painting exist today?
15
The Mona Lisa is also called “La Giaconda”. What does that mean?
The laughing one
