Renaissance Quiz

Which wealthy banking family patronized the arts and paid artists for creating new pieces?

• Mariachis

• Donatellos

• Medicis

• da Vincis

A secular way of thinking that focused on human potential and achievements:

• Impressionism

• Modernism

• Realism

• Humanism

This famous Renaissance artist not only created works of art, he also drew inventions and anatomical drawings of the human body:

• Leonardo da Vinci

• Raphael

• Donatello

• Michaelangelo

This painting lacks perspective, making it appear flat and "cartoonish". This is an example of a painting from the:

• Middle Ages

• Renaissance

The ideas of the Renaissance were inspired by:

• Japan

• France

• Greece & Rome

• England

This artist painted the ceiling of the Sistine Chapel:

• Michaelangelo

• Leonardo da Vinci

• Donatello

• Raphael

the leading English language poet and playwright of the Renaissance

• Gutenberg

• Shakespeare

• Albrecht Durer

• Thomas More

• Erasmus

printer who invented a printing press with movable type

• Gutenberg

• Shakespeare

• Albrecht Durer

• Thomas More

• Erasmus

What most influenced the European Renaissance?

• the artwork of ancient Egypt

• the religion of ancient Mesopotamia

• the ideas of ancient Greece and Rome

• the technology of ancient China and India

Which of the following best defines the Renaissance?

• a European period in the 1600s and 1700s that focused on the value of reason

• a period from the 1300s to 1500s that brought new beliefs, culture, and art to Europe

• a European movement from 1800 to 1850 that emphasized the imagination and feelings

• a movement in the 1500s and 1600s during which religious leaders broke away from the Catholic Church in Europe