Renaissance Ch 1-3

What was the Renaissance a period of?

• Legislation requiring more learning

• Church promotion of learning

• Government promotion of the arts

• Rebirth of classical arts and culture

During the Renaissance, what were the wealthiest and most influential members of Italian society called?

• Heretics

• Patricians

• Humanists

• Plebians

What country did the Renaissance begin?

• France

• Netherlands

• Italy

• England

What brilliant Renaissance man was a painter, scientist, and inventor who is famous for painting the Mona Lisa?

• Raphael

• Michelangelo

• Donatello

• Leonardo da Vinci

What period of time occurred before the Renaissance?

• The Golden Age

• The Middle Ages

• The Greek Empire

• The Roman Empire

How did artists afford to create their paintings or sculptures?

• Patrons funded their art

• The artists traded with other countries to raise funds for their art

• The artists traveled from city to city selling their art at trade shows

• The government provided funding for their art

What is humanism?

• Trade that involved slaves

• The theory of humans having immortality

• The belief in the importance of humans

• A religion based on honoring humans

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 movement in Renaissance Europe, celebrating human potential and achievement and stressing the study of subjects such as history, grammar, literature, and philosophy.

• Renaissance
• Humanism
• arts
• patron

What governing family was known as the largest patrons of the arts produced in Florence, Italy?

• The Medicine family

• The Michelangelo family

• The Medici family