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Which was a major difference between Medieval and Renaissance Art?

• Heavier influence on themes of morality and emotion

• Subjects where more often Christian in nature.

• Greater use of color

• Better representations of perspective

Put the art movements in chronological order.

• Rococo, Romanticism, High Renaissance, Realism

• Baroque, Neoclasscism, Futurism, Romanticism

• Cubism, Futurism, Dadaism, Neoclassicism

• High Renaissance, Northern Renaissance, Rococo, Romanticism

The Renaissance was able to begin in Italy primarily because of

• the dominance of the Catholic Church in Italy
• strong alliances between Italian city-states
• Italy's strong sense of nationalism
• wealth created from Italy's extensive trade network

What do Petrarch and Pico della Mirandola share in common?

• Italian humanists promoting a revival of classical themes
• Christian humanists who tried to reform the church
• Artists who employed naturalism and geometric perspective
• Wealthy elite who patroned and commissioned great works of art

Niccolo Machiavelli is representative of individuals who

• received financial support from the Church for their scholarship.
• attempted to reform the Church through the Italian Renaissance.
• promoted secular models for individual and political behavior.
• articulated new theories of inductive and deductive reasoning.

Michelangelo portrayed David to symbolize...

• the republic of Florence standing up to its larger and more powerful enemies.
• the sovereignty of the Catholic Church over the power of monarchies. 
• a pagan classical hero to inspire a revolution that would unite the Italian peninsula.
• the triumph of the urban nobility over the landed aristocracy. 

Baldassare Castiglione's "The Book of the Courtier" was important because it

• provided a new definition of the "civilized" and "refined" man
• called for a new social system based on communal charity
• celebrated the great emperors of classical Rome
• advocated Neo-Platonism, emphasizing ideal forms

Which of the following was a major factor in the spread of humanist culture in late fifteenth and early sixteenth centuries?

• The creation of new religious orders by the papacy
• A major increase in government funding for elementary education
• The development of the printing press
• The sale of basic textbooks written in the vernacular

Renaissance humanism is primarily defined as

• an antireligious program dedicated to the destruction of the Church

• a curriculum based on the study of the classics, rhetoric, and history

• an artistic style that portrayed the depraved state of human beings

• a religious movement that attempted to make Christianity relevant to daily experience

Northern Humanism emphasized

• reading in the vernacular & reforming the Church.

• the Greco-Roman classical past as a model for behavior.

• a style of art that celebrated panoramic scenes of village life.

• political unity among the Low Countries to defend against French expansion.