The Renaissance

Question 0

HUMANISM

Answer 0

An interest in human beings.

Question 1

RENAISSANCE

Answer 1

A rebirth, when people began to question the old ideas and became interested in Ancient Greece and Rome.

Question 2

PATRON

Answer 2

A person who would pay an artist to do a work of art.

Question 3

PERSPECTIVE

Answer 3

Adding depth to a picture.

Question 4

ANATOMY

Answer 4

The study of the human body.

Question 5

SFUMATO

Answer 5

A way of adding shading to a picture.

Question 6

FRESCO

Answer 6

A picture painted on walls or ceilings, the paint is applied to wet plaster.

Question 7

SCULPTOR

Answer 7

An artist who makes statues.

Question 8

VERNACULAR LITERATURE

Answer 8

Literature written in the native language of countries, not in Greek or Latin.

Question 9

SONNET

Answer 9

A poem with fourteen lines.

Question 10

ASTRONOMY

Answer 10

The study of the universe including the moon, stars, sun, and planets.

Question 11

WHAT ADVANCES WERE MADE IN LEARNING?

Answer 11

Printing (Gutenberg, movable type)
Literature (Vernacular, Shakespeare, human problems)
Medicine (Skeleton, Vesalius. Circulation of blood, Harvey)
Science (The earth goes round the sun, Galileo, law of falling objects, telescope inventd)