Renaissance Words to Know Test

a boot-shaped peninsula in southern Europe extending into the Mediterranean Sea

• Italian peninsula

• Indian peninsula

• Florida peninsula

• Korean peninsula

Renaissance

"rebirth"; following the Middle Ages, a movement that centered on the revival of interest in the classical learning of Greece and Rome

• Dark Ages

• Golden Ages

• Renaissance

• Reformation

Humanism

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

• Religious Law

• Humanism

• Religion

• Reason

a cause, explanation, or justification for an action or event.

• Reason

• Faith

• Religion

• Praying

A system where a patron pays for art. In Italy, the Medici family and the Pope were the greatest examples of patrons.

• Patron

• Patronage

• Artist

• Religion

Group of the most wealthy and privileged

• Aristocracy

• Clergy

• Monks

• Merchants

City or towns

• rural

• urban

• aristocracy

• peasants

the country side

• urban

• rural

• city

• town

(1475-1564) An Italian sculptor, painter, poet, engineer, and architect. Famous works include the mural on the ceiling of the Sistine Chapel, and the sculpture of the biblical character David.

• William Shakespeare

• Leonardo de Vinci

• Michelangelo

• Lorenzo Medici

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

• Leonardo de Vinci

• Michelangelo

• William Shakespeare

• Lorenzo Medici