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WorksheetsRenaissance
Total questions: 15
Worksheet time: 3mins
Name
Class
Date
1.
What is the literal meaning of the word, "Renaissance?"
a)
rebirth
b)
renewal
c)
reversal
d)
resurgence
2.
In which Italian city did the Renaissance originate?
a)
Bologna
b)
Genoa
c)
Florence
d)
Milan
3.
Known as "Il Magnifico," this 15th-century Italian statesman was one of the foremost patrons of the arts in the early Renaissance Period.
a)
Girolamo Savonarola
b)
Henry VIII
c)
Lorenzo de Medici
d)
Ludovico Gonzaga
4.
Regarded as the "Father of Humanism," he was an Italian scholar and poet who encouraged a study of classical knowledge from the Greeks and the Romans.
a)
Girolamo Savonarola
b)
Giovanni Boccaccio
c)
Desiderius Erasmus
d)
Francesco Petrarch
5.
The German blacksmith, printer and publisher who invented the moveable type printing press.
a)
Robert Fulton
b)
Johannes Gutenberg
c)
Leonardo da Vinci
d)
Gottlieb Daimlier
6.
The philosophy that shaped the Renaissance and gave primary importance to the development of the individual.
a)
Humanism
b)
Existentialism
c)
Idealism
d)
Rationalism
7.
Regarded as one of the greatest artists of the Renaissance, he is also regarded as the epitome of the Renaissance Man.
a)
Michelangelo Buonarotti
b)
Raffaello Sanzio
c)
Sandro Boticelli
d)
Leonardo da Vinci
8.
A foremost figure in genre painting, he is regarded as the most significant artist of Dutch and Flemish Renaissance.
a)
Albrecht Durer
b)
Jan van Eyck
c)
Pieter Bruegel
d)
Tiziano Vecellio
9.
Name the Italian artist whose masterpieces include the frescoes on the ceiling of the Sistine Chapel.
a)
Leonardo da Vinci
b)
Raphael
c)
Michelangelo
d)
Tiziano Vecellio
10.
Name the artist of the painting, School of Athens.
a)
Leonardo da Vinci
b)
Tiziano Vecellio
c)
Raffaello Sanzio
d)
Michelangelo Buonarotti
11.
Name the German artist who created the painting, "Praying Hands."
a)
Hans Holbein
b)
Veit Stoss
c)
Albrecht Durer
d)
Matthias Grunewald
12.
Regarded as the greatest playwright of all time, his works include Macbeth, Hamlet and Julius Caesar.
a)
Francois Rabelais
b)
Giovanni Boccaccio
c)
William Shakespeare
d)
Miguel de Cervantes
13.
The 16th century English lawyer, social philosopher and statesman who dreamed of an ideal world in his work, Utopia.
a)
Francis Bacon
b)
Jeremy Bentham
c)
Desiderius Erasmus
d)
Sir Thomas More
14.
Name the artist who created the painting, "Adoration of the Magi."
a)
Sandro Boticelli
b)
Michelangelo Buonarotti
c)
Leonardo da Vinci
d)
Albrecht Durer
15.
Aside from Leonardo, Michelangelo and Raphael, who is the fourth member of the Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles?
a)
Titian
b)
Donatello
c)
Masaccio
d)
Giotto
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