Renaissance

Which was a major characteristic of the Renaissance?

•  conformity

• humanism

• mysticism

• obedience

Who best represented the humanist philosophy of the Renaissance?

• Shakespeare

• Erasmus

• Cervantes

• Luther

One factor that enabled the Renaissance to flourish in Northern Italy was that the region had…

• a socialist form of government

• limited contact with the Byzantine Empire

• a shrinking middle class

• a wealthy class that invested in the arts (patrons)

What were the approximate dates of the Renaissance?

• 500-900 A.D.

• 900-1350 A.D.

• 1350-1600 A.D.

• 1600-1800 A.D.

The ideas of the Renaissance spread from Italian city-states to _________________.

• Africa

• North America

• Northern Europe

• Southern Asia

This term refers to the act of charging interest on loans.

• Commerce

• Dowry

•  Patronage

• Usury

Much of the art in the Italian city states moved away from religion in the Renaissance and is referred to as…

• secular

• heresy

•  hypocritical

• realism

Who paid for artists to paint, sculpt, and build during the Renaissance?

• The Pope

• Peasants

• Patrons

•  Businesses

What city-state was the center of the Renaissance?

• Danville

• Venice

• Rome

• Florence

What influenced artists the most that helped shape Renaissance artists and thinkers?

• Byzantine Art

• state patronage of the arts

• Glorious Revolution in England

• works of classical Greece and Rome