Vocabulary

Question 1

Renaissance

Answer 1

the humanistic revival of classical art,architecture,literature,and learning that originated in Italy in the 14 century

Question 2

Milan

Answer 2

an industrial city in central Lombardy,in north Italy

Question 3

Venice

Answer 3

a seaport in north east Italy,built on numerous small islands in the Lagoon of Venice

Question 4

Florence

Answer 4

city in central Italy on the Arno River

Question 5

Rome

Answer 5

capital of Italy,largest city in the country,and seat of the Roman Catholic Church,located on the Tiber River in west-central Italy

Question 6

Medici Family

Answer 6

Italian noble family that produced three popes,Leo and two queens of France

Question 7

Humanism

Answer 7

any system or mode of thought or action in which human interests,values,and dignity predominate

Question 8

Machiavelli

Answer 8

Italian statesman,political philosopher,author

Question 9

Perspective

Answer 9

the art of drawing solid objects on a two-dimensional surface

Question 10

Gutenberg

Answer 10

German printer: credited with invention of printing from movable type

Question 11

Earsmus

Answer 11

dutch humanist,scholar,theologian,and writer

Question 12

William Shakespeares

Answer 12

an English playwright and poet of the late sixteenth and early seventeenth centuries

Question 13

Sir Thomas More

Answer 13

was an English lawyer,social philosopher,author,statesman and noted Renaissance humanist

Question 14

Flemish

Answer 14

the dutch languages as spoken in Flanders,one of the two official languages of Belgium

Question 15

Michelangelo

Answer 15

Italian sculptor,painter,architect,and poet

Question 16

Jan Van Eyck

Answer 16

was an early Netherlands painter active in Brutes and one of the most significant Northern Renaissance artists of the 15 century

Question 17

Albercht Durer

Answer 17

was a painter,print-maker,and theorist of the German Renaissance

Question 18

Fresco

Answer 18

a painting done rapidly in watercolor on wet plaster on a wall or celling

Question 19

Indulgences

Answer 19

the action or fact of indulging

Question 20

Predestination

Answer 20

the divine foreordaining of all that will happen,especially with regard to the salvation of some and not others

Question 21

Reformation

Answer 21

the action or process of reforming an institution or practice

Question 22

Martin Luther

Answer 22

a sixteenth century German religious leader;the founder of Protestanism

Question 23

Henry VIIII

Answer 23

a king of England in the early sixteenth century

Question 24

John Calvin

Answer 24

French theologian and reformer in Switzerland:leader in the Protestant Reformation

Question 25

Huguenots

Answer 25

a French Protestant of the 16th-17th centuries