590012957 | What was the Renaissance? | An explosion of Artistic + Literary Expression A time of Economic Growth A celebration of the individual and the material (The Secular) | |
590012958 | Term for the essence of active manliness | Virtu | |
590012959 | Benevuto Cellini was considered the author of what self-absorbed type of writing | Autobiography | |
590012960 | Who did the Renaissance impact? | Primarily the Elite | |
590012961 | Location of the Renaissance | Italy The Northern Renaissance (The low countries; Spain;etc) | |
590012962 | This location became the "Queen of the Adriatic," and the link between Europe and the East? | Venice | |
590012963 | This location became the center of European Banking during the Quattro cento (15th Century)? | Florence | |
590012964 | Merchant families used their wealth to become near- hereditary rulers of the cities. Family in Milan? Family in Florence? | The Sforza in Milan The Medici in Florence | |
590012965 | The Medici's were founded by? | Banking family founded by Giovanni de Medici (1360-1429) | |
590012966 | What Medici was known as know as "the magnificent," and was a patron of the arts? | Lorenzo de Medici | |
590012967 | One wall of the Medici family chapel painted by _____ in 1463, depicting Cosmo (on the white horse in the red hat). | Benozzo Gozzoli | |
590012968 | Renaissance architect responsible for The Duomo (Dome) of the Basilica di Santa Maria del Fiore (completed 1436)? | Filippo Brunelleschi (1377-1446) | |
590012969 | Who created the façade of Santa Maria Novella in Florence (completed 1471)? | Leon Battista Alberti (1404-1472) | |
590012970 | Name given to Ghiberti's doors to the eastern entrance of the baptistery doors of the basilica in Florence by Michelangelo (Completed 1452). | Gates of Paradise | |
590012971 | Several examples of Donatello's (1386-1466) pieces of art? | David (1446): Little Statue of David Feast of Herod (1425) Gattamelata (Horse Statue) | |
590012972 | Characteristics of the paintings of the Middle Ages | Religious Themes, e.g. Madonna and child, icons Lacked perspective: two dimensional | |
590012973 | Renaissance paintings had religious paintings, but an increase in this type of painting? | Secular | |
590012974 | Renaissance paintings utilized? | Perspective | |
590012975 | Individuals in renaissance paintings were depicted in? | Contemporary dress | |
590012976 | These type of renaissance paintings increased? | Portraits | |
590012977 | During the Renaissance individual artists developed? | Unique style | |
590012978 | Author of Lives of the Most Excellent Painters, Sculptors, and Architects (1550) a.k.a. Lives of the Artist | Giorgio Vasari's | |
590012979 | Who was the 1st Renaissance painter? | Giotto | |
590012980 | Giotto painted? | The Betrayal of Christ (1305) Meeting at the Golden Gate (1305) | |
590012981 | Masaccio (1401-1428) painted? | The Tribute Money (1420s): Guy in short clothes The Expulsion from the Garden of Eden (1420s) | |
590012982 | Botticelli (1440-1510) painted? | Portrait of Dante (1495) Portrait of a young man (1483) Primavera (spring) (1482) The Birth of Venus (1485) | |
590012983 | Raphael (1483-1520) painted? | The School of Athens (1509) Madonna of the Meadow (1506) | |
590012984 | Who was The Renaissance Man? | Da Vinci | |
590012985 | Leonardo Da Vinci (1452-1519) painted? | Lady and the Ermine (1483-90) Mona Lisa (La Gioconda) (1505) The Last Supper (1498) Self Portrait (1512) The Vitruvian Man (1492) | |
590012986 | Michelangelo (1475-1564) sculpted? | David (1504) Pieta (1499) Moses (1515) Slave (dying) (1513) The Creation of Adam; Sistine Chapel (1510) The Last Judgment; Sistine Chapel (1537-41) | |
590012987 | Titian (1477-1576) painted? | Assumption of the Virgin (1516-18) Bacchanal of the Andrians (1523-24) Venus of Urbino (1538) | |
590012988 | Sofonisba Anguissola (1535-1625) painted? | Portrait of the Artist's Sisters Playing Chess (1555) Portrait of Minerva Anguissola | |
591748308 | The humanist devoted themselves to the liberal arts, also known as? | Studia humanitatis | |
591748309 | Much like Italian painters, while the humanists were secular, they didnt? | They didn't abandon religion. | |
591748310 | The Renaissance had its roots in the writing of? | Dante Alugheri (1265-1321) | |
591748311 | Dante Alugheri wrote? | The Divine Comedy | |
591748312 | Author of sonnets to Laura and the "father of humanism" | Petrach | |
591748313 | Famous novel by Boccaccio about 10 young people who flee Florence during an outbreak of the Black Death? | The Decameron (1353) | |
591748314 | Advocate of "civic humanism" | Leonardo Bruni | |
591748315 | Concept that the true Renaissance man participated in politics and government and looked to classical Greece and Rome as models | Civic Humanism | |
591748316 | Leonardo Bruni was the author of this1st modern work? | History of the Florence People | |
591748317 | Who proved the "Donation of Constantine" through which Emperor Constantine allegedly gave the Papal states to the Papacy, to be a forgery? | Lorenzo Valla | |
591748318 | Speech given by Pico della Miradola that averred that man is in charge of his own destiny? | "Oration on the dignity of man" (1486) | |
591748319 | The "Oration on the dignity of man" Believe that all ages held? | Believe that all ages held "precious nuggets of universal truth," for which he was accused of heresy | |
591748320 | Author of The Book of the courtier (1528)? | Baldassare Castiglione | |
591748321 | What did the The Book of the courtier illustrate? | Illustrated the proper behavior of the ideal Renaissance gentle man and woman | |
591748322 | Two works by Niccolo Machiavelli (1469-1529) | The Prince (1513): Portrayed the government not as it ideally should be, but as it was Discourses (1513): It demonstrates his hope in humanity and the virtues of a Republic and the rule of the people | |
591748323 | Famous woman humanist and author of "The Book of the City of the Ladies," which called for peace and recognition of women's contributions in life? | Christine de Pizan | |
591748324 | Pope who hired Bramate to design St. Peter's Basilica and Michelango to paint the Sistine Chapel? | Pope Julius II (1503-1513) | |
591748325 | Name two designers/architects of St. Peter's Basilica? | Bramate Michelango | |
591748326 | What corrupt figure sold indulgences that led to Martin Luther's 95 theses? | Leo X (Giovanni de Medici) (1513-1521 | |
591748327 | Two masters of nepotism? | Sixtus IV (1471-1484) Alexander VI (Rodrigo Borgia; 1492-1503) | |
591748328 | Dominican monk who led the Bonfire of the Vanities in Florence | Savonarola (1452-1498) | |
591873405 | The #1 Christian Humanist during the Renaissance? | Desiderius Erasmus (1466-1536) | |
591873406 | Desiderius Erasmus wrote? | The Praise of Folly (1509) Handbook of a Christian Knight (1503) | |
591897560 | One major difference between the Northern and Italian Renaissance? | Far less secular than the Italian Renaissance | |
591897561 | Fantastically wealthy banking family of the Northern Renaissance? | Fuggers | |
591897562 | Founder of the Fugger family? | Hans Fugger | |
591897563 | Who rose the Fugger family name? | Jacob "the rich" | |
591897564 | Scientist of the Northern Renaissance who developed new mathematical principles? | Regiomontanus Nicholas of Cusa | |
591897565 | Who developed the heliocentric theory? | Copernicus | |
591897566 | Book by Thomas a' Kempis stressing a personal relationship with God? | Imitation of Christ | |
591897567 | Groups founed by Gerard Groote that stressed the Modern Devotion, a personal relationship with Christ? | Brothers + Sisters of the Common Life | |
591897568 | Brothers of the Common Life preached the? | Modern Devotion | |
591873407 | English humanism was championed by? | Elizabeth I (1558-1603) | |
591873408 | Name a few writers of the English Renaissance and a major work by each? | Geoffrey Chaucer: The Canterbury Tales (1387-1400) Christopher Marlowe: Dr. Faustus Edmund Spenser; The Faeire Queen William Shakespeare: Hamelot, Macbeth, Othello... | |
591873409 | Great work by St. Thomas More that criticized capitalism? | Utopia (1516) | |
591873410 | New monarch of France, the "spider king," who encouraged the renaissance? | Louis XI (1423-1483): | |
591873411 | Christian Humanist from France who wrote the bawdy Gargantua and Pantagruel? | Francois Rabelais (1494-1553): | |
591873412 | 1st Modern skeptic and author of Essays? | Michel de Montaigne (1533-1592) | |
591873413 | French supporter of politique, the belief that affiars of state should be conducted free of religious ideology? | Jean Bodin | |
591873414 | Spanish cardinal and statesman, was a noted humanist who advised Ferdinand and Isabella? | Ximenez de Cisneros | |
591873415 | Great work by Miguel de Cervantes that is considered to be one of the greatest perhaps the first, novel ever written? | Don Quixote (1605-1615): | |
591873416 | Early 15th century leader of Mantua and art patron? | Isabella d'Este | |
591873417 | Duchess of Urbino and subject of Castiglione's Book of the Courtier? | Elisabetta Gonzaga | |
591873418 | Queen of France (1547-1559) and art patron? | Catherine de Medici | |
591873419 | _____ and archers were raised from the lower classes to challenge the mounted knight? | Pikemen | |
591873420 | This England new Monarach was founded by Henry VII following the War of the Roses? | Tudor Dynasty | |
591873421 | This Chamber was used to curb challenges to Henry VII's rule? | The Star Chamber | |
591873422 | France's new monarch ruled by ______ line of the Capetian Dynasty | The Valois | |
591873423 | This French agreed to the Concordat of Bologna (1516) with Pope Leo X which nullified the Pragmatic Sanction of Bourges but granted the French king the power of lay investiture | King Francis I | |
591873424 | Kingdoms of Aragon and Castile were united in 1469 through the marriage of? | Ferdinand and Isabella | |
591873425 | This group purged the Spanish Church of abuses? | Inquisition | |
591873426 | Muslim converts | Moriscos | |
591873427 | Jewish converts | Marranos | |
591873428 | This HRE empire emerged as the most powerful ruler in the world? | Charles V (1516-1556) |
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