Renaissance Quiz

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

• Mariachis

• Donatellos

• Medicis

• da Vincis

This painting displays perception and realistic detail, making it an example of art from the:

• Middle Ages

• Renaissance

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 artist painted the ceiling of the Sistine Chapel:

• Michaelangelo

• Leonardo da Vinci

• Donatello

• Raphael

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

What artist was known as a "Renaissance Man" because he was skilled in many fields?

• Michelangelo
• Gutenbuerg
• da Vinci
• Machiavelli

Which book was authored by Niccolò Machiavelli?

• The Prince

• The Decameron

• The Book of the Courtier

• Two Treatises of Government

Who were patrons?

• Those who advised the Medici family

• The wealthy merchants of the Italian city-states

• Supporters of the arts

• Those who opposed the Medici family

The wealth and patronage of what family supported great works of art produced in Florence during the Renaissance?

• Galilei
• Medici
• Kepler
• da Vinci

Who authored the book "The Prince", where he declared "It is better to be feared than to be loved, if  you cannot be both"?

• Kepler
• Medici
• Machiavelli
• da Vinci