The renaissance

Question 1

What does renaissance mean

Answer 1

Rebirth

Question 2

What does Humanism mean

Answer 2

Shift in mindset from focusing to god to focusing on human knowledge.

Question 3

What are the 5 causes of the renaissance ?

Answer 3

Ruins of the Roman Empire,
Fall of the Constantinople,
Wealth from trade,
New ideas from trade ,
Competition between Italian city states.

Question 4

Which country was the centre of ancient Roman Empire?

Answer 4

Italy.

Question 5

What did Italian speak back then ?

Answer 5

Latin.

Question 6

When did the fall of the Constantinople fall?

Answer 6

1453

Question 7

Heracy meaning:

Answer 7

Going against the teachings of the church.

Question 8

Who captured Eastern Roman Empire?

Answer 8

Ottoman Tusks in 1453

Question 9

Where did traders bring more goods from?

Answer 9

The east.

Question 10

For the new ideas in trade, what did they learn?

Answer 10

Arabic numbers.

Question 11

Who was a patron?

Answer 11

A wealthy person who commissions artists to paint for them to show off their wealth and power.

Question 12

Who was Nicolas Copernicus

Answer 12

an astronomer who proposed a heliocentric system, that the planets orbit around the Sun.

Question 13

Which city did renaissance start?

Answer 13

Florence.

Question 14

What family rules Florence?

Answer 14

The Medici Family

Question 15

How did Medici Family earn money?

Answer 15

Owning the largest bank in Florence to commission art.

Question 16

What does astronomy mean?

Answer 16

Study of planets and stars.

Question 18

Who was Galileo Galilee?

Answer 18

He was a mathematician and an astronomer. He discovered the four moons of Jupiter and noticed that sun had black spots.

Question 19

What was the richest city in Italy?

Answer 19

Florence

Question 20

How many people where in Florence approximately?

Answer 20

100,000

Question 21

What did the Medici family do to maintain high trade levels?

Answer 21

Kept peace with neighbouring states

Question 23

What does medieval paintings mainly focus on

Answer 23

Religion.

Question 24

Why were mostly paintings in the medieval times were based on religion?

Answer 24

Because to let people follow the church teachings.

Question 25

What were the paintings painted on in the medieval times?

Answer 25

Wooden panels that broke easily or on white plaster on wall

Question 26

What does fresco mean

Answer 26

Fresh

Question 27

What paint did they use back then in the medieval times

Answer 27

Egg tempera paint, it was mixed with egg yolk and powder pigment colour and dyes.

Question 28

What were mostly renaissance paintings based on?

Answer 28

Greek and roman mythology, or everyday life

Question 29

What were the paints in the renaissance mixed with

Answer 29

It was mixed with oil as it dried more slowly and let the painter be more precise.

Question 30

What does the painting technique called sfumato mean?

Answer 30

Smoky, as it involves blurring and smudging

Question 31

What did the renaissance painters use to create depth and distance in painting?

Answer 31

Perspective.

Question 32

What did they study that was the structure of the body?

Answer 32

Anatomy .

Question 33

Where was the Mona Lisa housed in?

Answer 33

The louvre museum, Paris.

Question 34

Mona Lisa was a wife of a wealthy ______________ _______________ and it took two years to finish.

Answer 34

She was a wife of a wealthy florentine merchant.

Question 35

What was the last supper about

Answer 35

When Jesus has his last meal before he gets killed, and saying that one of the disciples will betray him

Question 36

Where was the last supper painted on

Answer 36

Painted on the wall of a monastery

Question 37

When was Leonardo da Vinci born

Answer 37

1452-1519

Question 38

What was da Vinci role?

Answer 38

As a painter and a visionary inventor

Question 39

What was Da Vinci considered as

Answer 39

The renaissance man

Question 40

Where was da Vinci born in

Answer 40

He was born in Vinci, near Florence.

Question 41

At 14, who did da Vinci become an apprentice to?

Answer 41

Andrea del verrochio in Florence

Question 42

Why and when did he move to the Duke of Milan ?

Answer 42

In 1482, he found work difficult so he went to the Duke of Milan

Question 43

When did da Vinci paint the Mona Lisa

Answer 43

1499

Question 44

Where did da Vinci live in 1516

Answer 44

He lives in Florence in 1516, and that is the area when he died there.

Question 45

Why were the renaissance statues tend to be naked?

Answer 45

Because to show skill in carving the body

Question 46

Who sculpted the David?

Answer 46

Michelangelo Buonarroti

Question 47

In _______, Michelangelo won a competition to carve a single __________ of white ____________, from the _________story of David and the Goliath, celebrating ______________ defeats _____________in war.

Answer 47

1501, block, marble, biblical, Florence, France

Question 48

When was Michelangelo born in

Answer 48

He was born in Florence in 1475

Question 49

Who did Michelangelo come attention to

Answer 49

Lorenzo di Medici, which he lived with him and studied in his sculpture academy.

Question 50

Where did Michelangelo paint the ceiling of the Sistine chapel?

Answer 50

In the Vatican, 1508

Question 51

Before the printing press, what did they do?

Answer 51

They had to be copied by hand and was expensive back then

Question 52

Who invented the printing press ?

Answer 52

Johannes Gutenberg

Question 53

When was Johannesburg Gutenberg born?

Answer 53

1398-1468

Question 54

What was the movable type of printing press?

Answer 54

It placed individual metal letters, in a frame to form words , and was coated with ink and pressed the frame to paper.

Question 55

What was the first book Gutenberg printed?

Answer 55

The Gutenberg bible

Question 56

What was the impact of a printing press?

Answer 56

- printed books were much cheaper - people read more and are more literate. - fiction was more popular, and people began to read for entertainment - control of the Catholic Church has learning ideas and were declined. - use of Latin was declined, writers wrote in vernacular.

Question 57

What does vernacular mean?

Answer 57

It means that language is spoken in the native country.

Question 58

When did medicine begin in the renaissance?

Answer 58

1500s

Question 59

Did you know that

Answer 59

Doctors such as Andrea’s Vesalius (1514-1564) began to investigate anatomy

Question 60

What were one of the book Andrea’s Vesalius wrote?

Answer 60

Fabric of the human body

Question 61

How many accurate drawings of the bone does Vesalius have?

Answer 61

Around 270

Question 62

What did William Harvey discover?

Answer 62

He discovered that the heart pumped blood around the body

Question 63

What does astronomy mean?

Answer 63

The study of the stars

Question 64

What did the Catholic Church believe?

Answer 64

That god created this world

Question 65

Where was galileo Galilee born?

Answer 65

Padua, Italy

Question 66

What did Galilei do about the telescope

Answer 66

He improved it

Question 67

What were the discoveries for galileo galilei

Answer 67

He found out that there are craters in the moon, and there are black spots around the sun and that Saturn has rings

Question 69

Who was Nicolas Copernicus ?

Answer 69

He was a polish priest and an astronomer in the 1540s

Question 70

What book did Copernicus write

Answer 70

On the revolutions of the heavenly spheres.

Question 71

What happened when Galileo revived his ideas?

Answer 71

The pope ordered he be put into trial before the inquisition.

Question 72

What was Galileo convicted of ?

Answer 72

Heresy, meaning that he was going against the church teachings.

Question 73

What did Galileo say when he was in trial?

Answer 73

He eventually said he was wrong.

Question 74

What did the church do to punish Galileo

Answer 74

Church banned his books and then he was kept under his house arrest until his death