Renaissance Review

Which two cultures greatly influenced the art of the Renaissance?

• Persia

• Frankish Kingdom

• Rome

• Greece

In his book, The Prince, Niccolo Machiavelli advises that a wise ruler is one who

• Keep taxes and food prices low

• Encourages education and the arts

• Does what is necessary to stay in power.

• Allows advisers to speak their minds

* Artist, architect, mathematician

* Studied anatomy to draw more realistic subjects

* Painted the portrait known as Mona Lisa

The information above best describes which invidual from the Renaissance?

• Raphael

• Michelangelo

• Leonardo da Vinci

• Botticelli

Which factor contributed to the Renaissance beginning in Italian cities?

• occupation of foreign powers

• interaction with Latin America

• access to important trade routes

• surplus of goods from Japan

Humanism during the Italian Renaissance focused on

• the affairs of the Church

• self-sufficiency

• the importance of the individual

• political theories

Utopia, by Sir Thomas More, described the

• Ideal religion

• Ideal society

• Corrupt governments

• Ideal governments

Johann Gutenberg influenced the spread of ideas by

• supporting the Scientific Revolution

• teaching his theories on Humanism

• inventing the movable-type printing press

• creating universities in throughout Europe

Northern Renaissance thinkers merged Humanism with

• Islamic Law

• Christianity

• Scientific Study

• Paganism

The prosperous trade that supported Renaissance art, literature, and architecture was stimulated by

• the Fall of the Roman Empire

• The Crusades

• The Bubonic Plague

• Charlemagne's empire

The Medici family of Florence, as did many of their contemporaries, used their wealth to support artists. We call these people

• Humanists

• Deacons

• Patrons

• Sponsors