The Renaissance Lesson 2

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

Which of the following was NOT a Renaissance artist?

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

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

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

William Shakespeare was a(n) _____.

Michelangelo began his career as _____ in Florence.

The pope funded works of art to decorate the Vatican

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

Leonardo da Vinci was _______

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

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

The printing press helped spread ____ throughout ______.

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

_____ painted the School of Athens

Plays were popular during the Renaissance

The Flemish painter,_____, created the Arnolfini Portrait.

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.

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

_______ - the limits between which something can change or differ

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

Petrarch traveled to different _____ to find old Latin manuscripts

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

_______ developed a printing press that used movable metal type.

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

__________ created a woodcut called the Four Horsemen of the Apocalypse

What spread humanist ideas?

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

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

_____ - painting on fresh wet plaster with watercolor paint

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

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

The Mona Lisa was a famous painting created by

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

Frescoes were painted in ____ all over Italy.

The Divine Comedy was about ________.

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

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

Humanism encouraged people to be ______ and to ______.

Gutenberg printed the first European printed book, _______.

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