Renaissance Study Guide: Humanism, Art, and Key Figures
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Who was Lorenzo de Medici?
A wealthy Florentine statesman, banker, and prominent patron of Renaissance arts and scholarship.
What did Johannes Gutenberg invent?
The printing press.
Who sculpted David and the Pieta?
Michelangelo.
What technique is used to give a 3-D effect on a flat surface?
Linear perspective.
What inspired Humanism?
Greek and Roman culture.
Why did literacy increase in Europe during the mid-1400's?
The printing press made books cheaper and more accessible.
Who wrote, 'The ends justify the means'?
Niccolò Machiavelli.
Who wrote Utopia?
Sir Thomas More.
What is the everyday language of the people called?
The Vernacular.
Who was the Northern Renaissance Humanist that wrote 'The Praise of Folly'?
Desiderius Erasmus.
Who painted The School of Athens?
Raphael.
Who was Jan van Eyck?
A Flemish Painter known for perfecting oil painting techniques and detailed realism.
Who was the architect of Il Duomo in Florence?
Fillippo Brunelleschi.
What is the difference between Northern Renaissance Art and Italian Renaissance Art?
Italian art focused on classical mythology, ideal physical form, and linear perspective, while Northern art focused on detailed realism, everyday domestic life, and oil painting.
Who was Christine de Pisan?
A medieval Italian-French author and early feminist writer known for The Book of the City of Ladies.
Who was Leonardo da Vinci?
An Italian polymath, painter, inventor, and scientist who painted the Mona Lisa and The Last Supper.
What is individualism?
A Renaissance cultural belief emphasizing the unique value, potential, and achievements of the individual person.
What is secularism?
A focus on worldly matters, life on Earth, and non-religious ideas rather than purely spiritual or religious concerns.
Who was Albrecht Durer?
A German Renaissance artist famous for his detailed woodcuts, engravings, and paintings.
What is Humanism?
An intellectual movement of the Renaissance that focused on human potential, achievements, and the study of classical Greek and Roman texts.
Who was Dante Alighieri?
An Italian poet famous for writing The Divine Comedy in the Italian vernacular.
Who painted the Birth of Venus?
Sandro Botticelli.
Who painted Giovanni Arnolfini and his Bride?
Jan van Eyck.
What was a fresco painting?
A technique of painting executed upon freshly laid, wet lime plaster.
What are three ways that the Renaissance spread north?
Trade networks between Italy and Northern Europe, artists traveling to Italy and bringing ideas back, and the rapid production of books via the printing press.