Renaissance Vocabulary Quiz

Humanism

• A Renaissance intellectual movement in which thinkers studied classical texts and focused on human potential and achievement
• Study of subjects such as grammar, rhetoric, poetry, and history, that were taught in ancient Greece and Rome
• Father of the Renaissance. He believed the first two centuries of the Roman Empire to represent the peak in the development of human civilization.
• Everyday language of ordinary people

Humanities

• A Renaissance intellectual movement in which thinkers studied classical texts and focused on human potential and achievement
• Study of subjects such as grammar, rhetoric, poetry, and history, that were taught in ancient Greece and Rome
• Father of the Renaissance. He believed the first two centuries of the Roman Empire to represent the peak in the development of human civilization.
• Everyday language of ordinary people

Petrarch

• A Renaissance intellectual movement in which thinkers studied classical texts and focused on human potential and achievement
• Study of subjects such as grammar, rhetoric, poetry, and history, that were taught in ancient Greece and Rome
• Father of the Renaissance. He believed the first two centuries of the Roman Empire to represent the peak in the development of human civilization.
• Everyday language of ordinary people

Vernacular

• A Renaissance intellectual movement in which thinkers studied classical texts and focused on human potential and achievement
• Study of subjects such as grammar, rhetoric, poetry, and history, that were taught in ancient Greece and Rome
• Father of the Renaissance. He believed the first two centuries of the Roman Empire to represent the peak in the development of human civilization.
• Everyday language of ordinary people

Patron

• a person who provides financial support for the arts
• A well known Italian Renaissance artist, architect, musician, mathematician, engineer, and scientist. Known for the Mona Lisa.
• 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.
• Italian Renaissance painter; he painted frescos, his most famous being The School of Athens.

Leonardo da Vinci

• a person who provides financial support for the arts
• A well known Italian Renaissance artist, architect, musician, mathematician, engineer, and scientist. Known for the Mona Lisa.
• 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.
• Italian Renaissance painter; he painted frescos, his most famous being The School of Athens.

Michelangelo

• a person who provides financial support for the arts
• A well known Italian Renaissance artist, architect, musician, mathematician, engineer, and scientist. Known for the Mona Lisa.
• 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.
• Italian Renaissance painter; he painted frescos, his most famous being The School of Athens.

Raphael

• a person who provides financial support for the arts
• A well known Italian Renaissance artist, architect, musician, mathematician, engineer, and scientist. Known for the Mona Lisa.
• 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.
• Italian Renaissance painter; he painted frescos, his most famous being The School of Athens.

Niccolo Machiavelli

• Wrote The Prince which contained a secular method of ruling a country. "End justifies the means."
• German printer who was the first in Europe to print using movable type and the first to use a press
• Dutch humanist and theologian who was the leading Renaissance scholar of northern Europe
• An English humanist that contributed to the world today by revealing the complexities of man. He wrote Utopia, a book that represented a revolutionary view of society.

Johannes Gutenberg

• Wrote The Prince which contained a secular method of ruling a country. "End justifies the means."
• German printer who was the first in Europe to print using movable type and the first to use a press
• Dutch humanist and theologian who was the leading Renaissance scholar of northern Europe
• An English humanist that contributed to the world today by revealing the complexities of man. He wrote Utopia, a book that represented a revolutionary view of society.