The Renaissance Lesson 2

The printing press came at a time where people were not learning to read and think for themselves

Gutenberg's printing press made many more _____ available to people.

Petrarch traveled to different _____ to find old Latin manuscripts

William Shakespeare was a(n) _____.

The Divine Comedy was about ________.

Half of the books published by the year 1500 were religious works

The press held carved letters that could be arranged to form words. However, the carved letters could only be used once

Which of the following was NOT a Renaissance artist?

Gutenberg printed the first European printed book, _______.

Northern artists painted in _____ rather than using water-based paints

More books were printed in the first 50 years of printing than were written in the entire history of the world up to1450

Humanism was based on ____ and ____ ideas

True or False? The English that we speak today comes from the form of English that Petrarch used in his writing.

The most celebrated female artist; one of the first women to paint major historical and religious scenes.

True or False? Educated Europeans wrote in classical Latin. However, they also began writing in the vernacular.

Frescoes were painted in ____ all over Italy.

True or False? The vernacular - the everyday language people spoke in a region

What spread humanist ideas?

"_____ Renaissance" refers to the cultural changes in what is today Belgium, the Netherlands, Luxembourg, and Germany

Humanism encouraged people to be ______ and to ______.

Unlike medieval art, Renaissance art attempted to show what people really looked like.

The Flemish painter,_____, created the Arnolfini Portrait.

The printing press was easy to use with linen paper, an invention from ____.

Admission was expensive. Only the wealthy could afford to see plays.

Humanists wanted to gain knowledge through ____ not just through ______.

_______ developed a printing press that used movable metal type.

Renaissance paintings used _____ and _____ to reveal people's emotions.

Plays were popular during the Renaissance

The Chinese had already invented movable type. However, the system did not work well because ______.

__________ created a woodcut called the Four Horsemen of the Apocalypse

______ - A belief in the worth of the individual and that reason is a path to knowledge

Michelangelo began his career as _____ in Florence.

_____ - painting on fresh wet plaster with watercolor paint

____ - used light and shadows instead of stiff outlines to separate objects

Leonardo da Vinci was _______

The pope funded works of art to decorate the Vatican

_______ - the limits between which something can change or differ

The printing press helped spread ____ throughout ______.

Drawings in da Vinci's notebooks often pictured parachutes, flying machines, and other mechanical inventions

The Mona Lisa was a famous painting created by

______ painted the ceiling of the Sistine Chapel with scenes from the Bible.

_____ painted the School of Athens