Renaissance Vocabulary Quiz

Renaissance

• A rebirth or revival

• A style of painting

• A work ethic

• A flavor of pasta sauce

Secular

• Measurement of time

• Concerned with worldly rather than spiritual matters

• To keep apart from each other

• The use of shading to show lighting

Humanism

• The practice of applying human qualities to animals in works of art

• A class of wealthy members of society who see themselves as "Truly Human"

• An intellectual movement in which thinkers studied classical texts and focused on human potential and achievements

• A dipping sauce made of ground chickpeas

Perspective

• The use of glass lenses to correct vision

• The scientific observation that the sun was a great distance from the earth

• The philosophy that art must serve a grater purpose that to be simply nice to look at

• An artistic technique that creates the appearance of three dimensions on a flat surface.

Rationalism

• A belief or theory that opinions and actions should be based on reason and knowledge rather than on religious belief

• The practice of not eating too much so that others may not go hungry

• A geometric mapping used in art to show scale

• The acceptance of other beliefs

Reformation

• An act of improving the church because of widely criticized practices

• A religious movement of the 16th century that began as an attempt to change the Roman Catholic Church and resulted in the creation of Protestant churches

• A religious movement of the 16th century that began as an attempt to change the Protestant church and resulted in the creation of the Roman Catholic Church

• To "fix" an already published work of art

Indulgence

• When you know you shouldn't buy yourself those new Yeezys, but you would look fire in them so you buy them anyway

• A popular subject matter in Roman Sculpture

• A pardon given by the Roman Catholic Church in return for repentance for sins

• The practice of exchanging goods and diseases

Recant

• To recount

• A person unable to attend church services due to an inability to donate money

• A forced perspective used to give the illusion of depth in a painting

• To withdraw a statement or belief to which one has previously been committed, renounce, retract

A Christian who protested against the Catholic Church

• Protestants

• Recant

• Humanist

• Annul

Declare invalid

• Reformation

• Annul

• Cancel Culture

• Geocentric