15-2: Arts and Literature

What did the development of linear perspective allow artists to do?

• show human anatomy more accurately

• paint three dimensional images on a flat surface

• create more exact technical drawings

• build domes with precise mathematical proportions

Who wrote a novel that satirized the ideals of medieval chivalry?

• Dante Alighieri

• William Shakespeare

• Miguel de Cervantes

• Petrarch

Renaissance architects designed structures that were considered beautiful because of their

• ornate religious imagery

• simplicity of design

• revival of medieval models

• harmony and proportion

Many major writers of the Renaissance shifted from

• non-fiction to fiction

• the vernacular to classical Latin

• religious subjects to secular subjects

• novels to poetry

What did Michelangelo and Leonardo da Vinci have in common?

• They were both artists of the Northern Renaissance

• They were both active in many different fields

• They both are best known for their sculptures

• They both turned away from religious subjects in their art