Renaissance (SAVVAS, Ducksters)

Question 1

At the start of the Renaissance, Italy was divided up into a number of powerful city-states.

Accepted Answer

These were areas of land that were ruled by a large city.

Question 2

From the 1300s to the 1500s, Western Europe enjoyed a golden age in the arts and literature, known as ______.

Accepted Answer

the Renaissance

Question 3

_____ painted the School of Athens which featured philosophers such as Plato, Aristotle, and Socrates .

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Raphael

Question 4

The Mona Lisa, perhaps the world's most famous painting in the world, was painted during the Renaissance by ___.

Accepted Answer

Leonardo da Vinci

Question 5

The word Renaissance literally means _____.

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“rebirth”

Question 6

In the 1400's the Medici family came into power in Florence. They were ______.

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wealthy bankers and helped the arts along by sponsoring many artists.

Question 7

According to the Ducksters article, one of the big changes in art was to paint and sculpt subjects realistically.

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true

Question 8

Renaissance art is often divided up into two periods:

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Early Renaissance and High Renaissance

Question 9

______marked the transition between medieval and early modern times.

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The Renaissance

Question 10

The Renaissance is generally considered to have started in ______ around the years 1350 to 1400.

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Florence, Italy

Question 11

The artist who painted the ceiling of the Sistine Chapel was ______

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Michelangelo

Question 12

Francesco Petrarch is often called the "Father of Humanism".

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He was a scholar and a poet who lived in Florence in the 1300s.

Question 13

At the heart of the Italian Renaissance was an intellectual movement known as ____.

Accepted Answer

Humanism

Question 14

_____believed that education should stimulate the individual’s creative powers. They emphasized the humanities.

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Humanists

Question 15

Petrarch wrote in the _____, or everyday language of ordinary people, as well as in Latin.

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vernacular

Question 16

Although Renaissance artists continued to paint religious paintings, they also _________.

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branched out to other subjects including Greek and Roman mythology

Questions 16