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Worksheets14.2 New Ideas & Art
Total questions: 20
Worksheet time: 15mins
Which individual is called the "father" of Humanism?
Dante Alighieri
Francesco Petrarch
Leonardo da Vinci
Johannes Gutenberg
A Renaissance movement based on Greek & Roman values stating that individuals and human society are important.
Feudalism
Commercialism
Humanism
Animism
"Father" of the Italian language. Writer of The Divine Comedy.
Geoffrey Chaucer
Michelangelo Buonarroti
Jan van Eyck
Dante Alighieri
"Father" of English literature. Wrote the Canterbury Tales in the English vernacular.
Geoffrey Chaucer
Johannes Gutenberg
William Shakespeare
Albrecht Durer
What is the term for... The everyday language people speak in a meeting?
Canterbury
Ideology
Philosophy
Vernacular
German inventor given credit for developing a printing press using movable metal type.
William Shakespeare
Geoffrey Chaucer
Johannes Gutenberg
Raphael Sanzio
Who was painter of the Mona Lisa and Last Supper?
Leonardo da Vinci
Raphael Sanzio
Michelangelo Buonarroti
Dante Alighieri
Art was formal, strict, flat, and only done for religious purposes.
Middle Ages
Renaissance
Art was more realistic, secular, and emotional.
Middle Ages
Renaissance
Who was the painter of the School of Athens?
Leonardo da Vinci
Raphael Sanzio
Michelangelo Buonarroti
Albrecht Durer
What individual filled notebooks with sketches of artistic ideas, inventions, and scientific ideas?
Leonardo da Vinci
Raphael Sanzio
Michelangelo Buonarroti
Geoffrey Chaucer
Who was the painter of the ceiling of the Sistine Chapel and sculptor of the 13 foot tall statue of David?
Francesco Petrarch
Jan van Eyck
William Shakespeare
Michelangelo Buonarroti
What individual is recognized as a master of oil painting? He created the Arnolfini Portrait.
William Shakespeare
Jan va Eyck
Albrecht Durer
Johannes Gutenberg
What individual was best known for his wood cut engravings? He produced the Four Horsemen of the Apocalypse?
Albrecht Durer
Dante Alighieri
Lorenzo de Medici
Geoffrey Chaucer
What individual is considered the greatest playwright of the Renaissance era? He wrote plays such as Romeo & Juliet and Hamlet.
Geoffrey Chaucer
Leonardo da Vinci
Jan van Eyck
William Shakespeare
What does it mean to "write in the vernacular"?
To write books in ancient Aramaic.
To write books in ancient Greek.
To write books in ancient Latin.
To write books in the everyday languages that people spoke in their regions: Italian, Spanish, German, English, Portuguese, French.
Why was the printing press so influential to this age of New Ideas? (you can choose all the answers that are correct)
It caused books to be printed faster which caused information to spread faster.
The Bible was printed in vernacular (common) languages for the first time.
More books were printed in the first 50 years of printing than were handwritten by 1450.
More people learned to read and write throughout Europe.
