Unit 2. 3 The Renaissance

A period of rebirth and creativity in art, writing, and thought from about 1300 to 1600 A.D., beginning in Italy and eventually spreading throughout Europe.

• Renaissance
• Humanism
• arts
• patron

 A broad range of cultural activities and creations.

• Renaissance
• Humanism
• arts
• patron

A person who supports an activity or institution by providing financial backing.

• Renaissance
• Humanism
• arts
• patron

An Italian city-state and leading cultural center during the Renaissance.

• Florence
• city-state
• Leonardo Da Vinci
• Brunelleschi

 An independent state consisting of a city and its surrounding territory.

• country

• city-state
• continent

• trade route

 The most famous English writer of the Renaissance, best known for his plays Romeo and Juliet and Hamlet.

• Shakespeare
• Michelangelo
• Raphael
• Petrarch

 An Italian Renaissance artist, born in 1475 A.D., who worked mainly as a sculptor but also painted such famous works as the ceiling of the Sistine Chapel in Rome.

• Shakespeare
• Michelangelo
• Raphael
• Petrarch

 A German who, in the mid-1400s, invented a press for printing with movable type.

• Johann Gutenberg
• Elizabethan Age
• Renaissance Man
• vernacular

What does the word "Renaissance" mean?

• Rebirth
• Stagnation
• Traditional
• A Latin term for art

What provided the major economic support for the Renaissance?

• wealthy patrons
• church officials
• government grants
• kings competing for prestige