Renaissance Vocab Practice

"Rebirth." A time of renewed artistic, social, and scientific changes in Europe during the 15th and 16th centuries. This is the definition of:

• Renaissance

• Protestant Reformation

• Indulgence

• I am not sure

Which person was an Italian writer who believed that because people were greedy and self-centered, keeping

power by any means was the only way to rule? Author of "The Prince"

• Kublai Khan

• Lorenzo de’ Medici

• Marco Polo

• Niccolò Machiavelli

Because of Italy’s long coastlines, Italian city-states became wealthy through

• farming

• fishing

• shipbuilding

• trade

the period from about 1350 to 1550 in Europe that saw major developments in art, culture, architecture, learning,

and science

• Middle Ages

• Renaissance

• Age of Enlightenment

• Modern Age

A Renaissance intellectual movement in which thinkers studied classical texts and focused on human potential and achievements

• Secular

• Renaissance

• Humanism

• Perspective

Concerned with worldly rather than spiritual matters

• Humanism

• Secular

• Renaissance

• Rebirth

A well known Italian Renaissance artist, architect, musician, mathemetician, engineer, and scientist. Known for the Mona Lisa.

• Leonardo da Vinci

• Michelangelo

• Raphael

• Donatello

Italian Renaissance sculptor, architect, painter, and poet; he sculpted the Pieta and the David, and he painted the ceiling of the Sistine Chapel.

• Leonardo da Vinci

• Michelangelo

• Raphael

• Donatello

The leading English language poet and playwright of the Renaissance

• Macchiavelli

• Cervantes

• Shakespeare

• Albrecht Durer

A sketch showing an object as the human eye or a camera sees the object

• Perspective

• Humanism

• Renaissance

• Painting