The Renaissance Lesson 2

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

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

What spread humanist ideas?

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

_____ - painting on fresh wet plaster with watercolor paint

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

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

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

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

Which of the following was NOT a Renaissance artist?

Frescoes were painted in ____ all over Italy.

William Shakespeare was a(n) _____.

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

Gutenberg printed the first European printed book, _______.

Leonardo da Vinci was _______

__________ created a woodcut called the Four Horsemen of the Apocalypse

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

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

Humanism encouraged people to be ______ and to ______.

The Divine Comedy was about ________.

Humanism was based on ____ and ____ ideas

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

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

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

The Flemish painter,_____, created the Arnolfini Portrait.

The pope funded works of art to decorate the Vatican

The Mona Lisa was a famous painting created by

_______ - the limits between which something can change or differ

Plays were popular during the Renaissance

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

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

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

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

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

Michelangelo began his career as _____ in Florence.

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

The printing press helped spread ____ throughout ______.

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

_____ painted the School of Athens

_______ developed a printing press that used movable metal type.

Petrarch traveled to different _____ to find old Latin manuscripts

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