WorksheetsWho am I? Figures of the Renaissance and Reformation
Total questions: 19
Worksheet time: 9mins
This Renaissance figure was known for painting the beautiful Sistine Chapel & his most famous sculpture is The David.
This Italian writer wrote much advice for rulers in his book The Prince, including the very famous phrase that it is better to be feared than loved.
This painting, the Last Supper, is one of the most famous ones (along with the Mona Lisa) done by this artist and Renaissance Man.
Paul Dipasquale
Leonardo da Vinci
Sandro Botticelli
Leonardo di Caprio
Who painted the Birth of Venus? This Italian artist painted many mythological and religious scenes.
Sandro Botticelli
Michelangelo
Raphael
Donatello
Thomas More
Fabricio Alvarado
Advantages of Johannes Gutenberg's printing press include all of the following EXCEPT:
Cheaper book prices
More books written in vernacular - language of the people
Increase in church power
Rapid spread of knowledge and ideas and encouragement of learning
Who used his knowledge of classical languages to produce a new Greek edition of the Bible? He was a Christian humanist who also criticized the greed of the church.
de Pisan
Holbein, van Eyck, and Bruegel were all
Italian humanists.
northern Renaissance painters.
northern Renaissance writers.
best known for their engravings.
The Northern Renaissance painter was known for including many scenes of life of peasants and regular people such as in his painting The Peasant Wedding.
Raphael
Jan van Ecyk
Filippo Brunelleschi
Pieter Bruegel
She was a writer of the Northern Renaissance who wrote multiple books; her best-known, The Book of the City of Ladies, criticized the lack of educational opportunities for girls.
Catherine de Medici
Christine de Pisan
Elizabeth I
Artemisia Gentileschi
This man began the Reformation when he nailed the 95 Theses, a complaint against indulgences and corruption, to the Wittenberg church door.
Martin Luther
King Henry VIII
Thomas More
Jan Hus
This English man was an important figure of the Northern Renaissance and Reformation; he wrote the book Utopia which imagined a perfect society and it somewhat criticized the church. However, he remained Catholic and refused to swear an oath to his friend, King Henry VIII, as the head of the Church, so Henry VIII had him executed.
William Shakespeare
Erasmus
Thomas More
William Tyndale
This man was a Spanish soldier who decided to start a group, the Society of Jesus (Jesuits) as "soldiers for Jesus" as part of the Counterreformation.
Martin Luther
Ignatius de Loyola
Tomas de Torquemada
Miguel de Cervantes
This king decided to leave Catholicism and start a new religion with him as the head of his new church because the Pope wouldn't annul his marriage which led to the creation of the Anglican Church.
King John
King Henry II
King Henry VIII
King Francis II
The School of Athens was painted by this Italian Renaissance painter.
Donatello
Raphael
Michelangelo
Fra Angelico
This man is best known for writing his book Utopia about an imaginary perfect place; this book criticizes greed and corruption. (He was also painted by Holbein).
William Wordsworth
Charles Dickens
George Boleyn
Thomas More
This French queen was originally from a famous banking family in Florence and was influential during the French Religious Wars.
Caterina Sforza
Artemisia Gentileschi
Catherine de Medici
Lucrezia Borgia
This painter is best known for The Arnolfini Wedding which shows his extreme level of realistic detail; he also invented new techniques for oil painting.
Pieter Bruegel
Albert Duhrer
Jan van Eyck
Pablo Picasso
