The Renaissance

Machiavelli's The Prince was primarily

• a secular handbook on modern statecraft

• A scathing critique of the New Monarchies

• A glorification of the independent city-states of Renaissance Italy

• A guide to courtly etiquette

What innovation in painting was developed by Renaissance artists?

• The use of color

• The illusion of depth

• The use of religious themes

• The use of symbolism

Michelangelo's David displays which thematic innovation of Renaissance artists?

• The portrayal of enigmatic expressions

• The depiction of religious personages

• The depiction of classical costumes

• Accurate human anatomy

Which of the following is a significant difference between medieval and Renaissance sculpture?

• The shift from Old Testament to New Testament themes

• Renaissance sculpture was devoid of religious subjects

• Renaissance art represented the visible world rather than conventional symbolism

• Renaissance sculpture was no longer commissioned by the popes.

The artistic brilliance of the 14th and 15th centuries was spurred in both Florence and Rome by

• the patronage of both civic groups and the Church

• artistic guilds

• the Medicis

• the people

What was true of Humanism?

• It set limits on what human beings could accomplish in this world.

• It emphasized the study of Greek and Roman classical literature.

• It sought to understand human nature exclusively by means of studying the writings of the early Christian philosophers

• It discouraged a study of pagan writers

Many Italian city-states during the fifteenth and sixteenth centuries tended to be dominated by

• political factions funded by the Holy Roman Emperor.

• middle-class men of professions, such as attorneys and physicians.

• old-line nobles tracing lineage back to medieval knights.

• a blend of wealthy merchants and aristocrats, who often intermarried

Uprisings such as the jacquerie and the English Peasant Revolt occurred in the fourteenth century due to all of the following except

• class clash

• taxation

• religious differences

• frustration with the nobility

The Babylonian Captivity and the Great Schism

• deepened faith in the Catholic Church

• caused people to question the church

• improved papal prestige

• caused countries to battle over religion

Machiavelli differed from medieval political theorists in that he wrote about

• the morality of the ruler

• the importance for a prince to win over the masses

• the importance for the prince to come to terms with the church

• how political life operates, not how it should be