Renaissance

What is the literal meaning of the word, "Renaissance?" 

• rebirth 
• renewal 
• reversal 
• resurgence

In which Italian city did the Renaissance originate? 

• Bologna 
• Genoa
• Florence
• Milan 

Known as "Il Magnifico," this 15th-century Italian statesman was one of the foremost patrons of the arts in the early Renaissance Period. 

• Girolamo Savonarola 
• Henry VIII
• Lorenzo de Medici 
• Ludovico Gonzaga 

Regarded as the "Father of Humanism," he was an Italian scholar and poet who encouraged a study of classical knowledge from the Greeks and the Romans. 

• Girolamo Savonarola 
• Giovanni Boccaccio 
• Desiderius Erasmus 
• Francesco Petrarch 

The German blacksmith, printer and publisher who invented the moveable type printing press. 

• Robert Fulton 
• Johannes Gutenberg 
• Leonardo da Vinci 
• Gottlieb Daimlier 

The philosophy that shaped the Renaissance and gave primary importance to the development of the individual. 

• Humanism 
• Existentialism 
• Idealism 
• Rationalism 

Regarded as one of the greatest artists of the Renaissance, he is also regarded as the epitome of the Renaissance Man. 

• Michelangelo Buonarotti
• Raffaello Sanzio 
• Sandro Boticelli 
• Leonardo da Vinci 

A foremost figure in genre painting, he is regarded as the most significant artist of Dutch and Flemish Renaissance. 

• Albrecht Durer 
• Jan van Eyck 
• Pieter Bruegel 
• Tiziano Vecellio 

Name the Italian artist whose masterpieces include the frescoes on the ceiling of the Sistine Chapel. 

• Leonardo da Vinci 
• Raphael 
• Michelangelo 
• Tiziano Vecellio

Name the artist of the painting, School of Athens. 

• Leonardo da Vinci 
• Tiziano Vecellio 
• Raffaello Sanzio 
• Michelangelo Buonarotti