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1
Who referred to pre-Christian times as
antiqua
(ancient) and the Christian period as
nova
(new)
Vasari
Petrarch
Dante
Bruni
2
Tuscan, Doric, Ionic, Corinthian and Composite are what?
Types of window
Types of door
Types of tower
Types of column
3
Where did the renaissance begin?
England
Italy
France
Germany
4
Who is credited with first treating a painting as a window into space?
Raphael
Leonardo da Vinci
Michalangelo
Giotto di Bondone
5
What challenged the classical worldview in 1492
The Northern Renaissance
The discovery of the New World by Christopher Columbus
The discoveries of Copernicus
The Protestant reformation
6
Which brothers perfected oil painting techniques?
The Titians
The Bruegels
The van Eycks
The Durers
7
Who did not make significant scientific advances in the Renaissance?
Galileo
Tycho Brahe
Galen
Kepler
8
Which writer was associated with the beginning of the Renaissance alongside Dante?
Machiavelli
Leonardo da Vinci
Petrarch
Lorenzo de Medici
9
Who built the dome of the Florence Cathedral?
Bramante
Raphael
Brunelleschi
Sanglio
10
What was a unique characteristic of some Renaissance libraries?
They were owned by the aristocracy
They were open to the public
They included paintings
They allowed women to read
11
the
Oration on the Dignity of Man was
a vibrant defence of what?
Thinking
Morality
Loving
Art
12
Vasari's Lives of Artists divides the Renaissance into 3 phases: who does it culminate with?
Michelangelo
da Vinci
Cimabue
Donatello
13
What term was used first in Giorgio Vasari's
Lives of the Artists
, 1550, revised 1568
alle romana et alla antica ( of the Romans and the ancients)
la rinascita (rebirth)
media tempestas (middle times)
modi antichi (in the antique manner
14
Who didn't focus on empirical evidence and mathematics, while discarding Aristotelian science?
Luca Pacioli
Copernicus
Francis Bacon
Galileo
15
Who is famous for studying light, shadow, and, famously, human anatomy?
Vitruvius
Leonardo da Vinci
Filippo Brunelleschi
Pieter Breughel
16
Who wrote the "manifesto" of the Renaissance, the
Oration on the Dignity of Man ?
Pico della Mirandola
Thomas More
Cicero
Machiavelli
17
What were the dominant art forms of the English Renaissance?
Music
Painting
Architecture
Literature
18
Who, along with Titian, is considered the greatest Venice based artist?
Filippo Brunelleschi
Michelangelo
Jan van Eyck
Tinteretto
19
The 'Studia Humanitatis', the study of five humanities didn't include...
logic
grammar
moral philosophy
poetry
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What allowed a faster propagation of more widely distributed ideas?
The invention of velum
The invention of quills
The invention of paper
The invention of printing
