The Renaissance

Born 1469-1527 Wrote The Prince; handbook on politics & ruling. Supported absolute power “The ends justifies the means”

Who wrote The Divine Comedy?

What is the definition of a Renaissance Man?

Famous Renaissance painting by Leonardo Da Vinci of a European woman.

Complete the sentence: Humanism focuses on...

Lived 1445-1510 Best known works include portraits & mythological subjects. Most famous is the Birth of Venus.

True or false: The Birth of Venus is by Botticelli.

Lived 1452 - 1519 The ultimate “Renaissance” man (painter, scientist, inventor, sculptor, engineer)

Lived 1265 – 1321 Author of The Divine Comedy, an imaginative vision of the afterlife

Lived 1483 - 1520 Spent 4 years studying in Florence but mostly worked in Rome

True or false: Usury means lending money without interest.

What event increased demand for Middle Eastern goods?

A person who works for another in order to learn a trade.

True or false: The Northern Renaissance came before the Italian Renaissance.

Lived 1466 – 1536 Dutch philosopher and Christian humanist. Greatest scholar of the Northern Renaissance

True or false: Renaissance means rebirth.

Renaissance painting of the meal Jesus ate with his disciples on the night before he died.

Which are the major Italian City-States?

When the Renaissance shifted from Italy and moved to France, Germany, and England

Financial supporter of the arts.

Machiavelli written book in 1513 about how a ruler should hold onto power.

True of False Northern Renaissance thinkers merged humanist ideas with Christianity = Christian Humanism

Who is known as the Father of Humanism?

Often considered the greatest artist of all time Painter, sculptor, & architect

Lived 1304 –1374 Scholar, poet of early Renaissance. Called “Father of Humanism”

An artistic technique that creates the appearance of three dimensions on a flat surface.

What helped the economics of the Renaissance?

True or False: The Renaissance marks the birth of the modern world.

Concerned with worldly rather than spiritual matters.

True or false: The Sistine Chapel was painted by Leonardo da Vinci.

1452 - 1519 The ultimate Renaissance Man (painter, scientist, inventor, sculptor, engineer)

Powerful banking family who ruled Florence in the 1400s, patrons of the arts.

Which city-state was the banking center of Europe?

Beautiful chapel whose ceiling was painted by Michelangelo.

What did the movable type printing press do?