The Renaissance in Italy

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

The Renaissance began in 

• England

• France

• Italy

• Constantinople

An Italian Renaissance painter, born in 1452 A.D., who painted many masterpieces, such as the Mona Lisa and The Last Supper, and also excelled in scientific research.

• Florence

• city-state

• Leonardo Da Vinci

• Brunelleschi

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

• Patronage

Copernicus, Kepler, Galileo and Newton were known for contributing what to the Renaissance?

• New concepts on the universe and science

• New trade routes and goods

• Books printed in local vernaculars

• New concepts on religion

 The early leader of the Humanist movement, an Italian poet and scholar.  One of the first thinkers to stress the value of classical learning, teachings of Greece and Rome.

• Shakespeare

• Michelangelo

• Raphael

• Petrarch

Which of the following people was an artist, scientist, inventor, and philosopher?

• Leonardo da Vinci

• William Shakespeare

• Miguel de Cervantes

• Dante Aligheri

How did Renaissance writers like Dante, Cervantes, and Shakespeare influence later writers?

• by writing in Latin

• by creating the first newspapers

• by writing the Bible

• by writing in the common lanugage

Art and literature of the Renaissance was influenced by ancient

• Anglo-Saxon

• Greek and Latin

• Anglo-Norman

• Old English

The Renaissance eventually spread from Italy to the rest of Europe between the 15th and 16th centuries.

• True

• False