Renaissance

What does the word renaissance mean?

• recreate

• reemerge

• rebirth

• reinvent

Where did the Renaissance begin?

• Milan

• Italy

• Britain

• Florence

Why were the Medicis important to the Renaissance?

• The commissioned many expeditions.

• They started a university in Florence.

• They believed in the teachings of Luther.

• They were patrons of the arts.

What invention helped to spread the ideas of the Renaissance?

• the printing press

• the caravel

• the telescope

• eyeglasses

Who was Johann Gutenberg?

• the inventor of the telescope

• the inventor of the printing press

• the founder of the laws of planetary motion

• a religious reformer

During the Renaissance, there was a revival of interst in

• perspective

• humanism

• Greek and Roman Civilizations

• individual achievement

An intellectual movement that focused on human potential and achievements

• Secular
• Patrons
• Merit
• humanism

How did Renaissance art differ from Medieval art?

• It was more godly

• It utilized realism

• it portrayed religious subjects

• it was more biblical

A person with talent in many fields

• Humanist

• Realist

• Renaissance Man

• Merchant

Italian painter, Commissioned by Medici, Painted “The Birth of Venus” among other things

• Leonardo de Vinci

• Botticello

• Raphael

• Michelangelo