Renaissance Art & Literature

Question 1

This artist worked to capture the beauty of the human being

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Michelangelo

Question 2

Masaccio worked his magic with water-based paints on fresh, wet plaster. A style known as...?

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fresco

Question 3

In 1455 he created the world’s first movable type printing press

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Johan Gutenberg

Question 4

Which of these artists was not part of the Northern Artistic Renaissance?

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Da Vinci

Question 5

The Renaissance began in Italy because...?

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Italy was home to wealthy ports and an urban society

Question 6

Final stage of Italian Renaissance painting, which flourished between 1490 and 1520 is called

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High Renaissance

Question 7

Wrote the Divine Comedy

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Dante

Question 8

A German painter/artist whose work flourished during the Northern Renaissance movement

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Dürer

Question 9

Artist who created this sculpture...

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Michelangelo

Question 10

He wrote The Canterbury Tales, a work that inspires the use of the English language in writing

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Chaucer

Question 11

Among other works, famous for Madonna and child paintings

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Raphael

Question 12

Was an era loosely placed in time between 1300 and 1600

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renaissance

Question 13

Which powerful family in Florence were famous patrons of the arts?

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The Medicis

Question 14

Brunelleschi was an architect who developed this method of using lines to create depth

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linear perspective

Question 15

Who said: “It is better to be feared than loved” “Once you gain power you must keep it”

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Machiavelli

Question 16

A scholar who collected forgotten Latin manuscripts from monastic libraries.

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Petrarch

Question 17

During the Renaissance artists sought to imitate…?

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nature

Question 18

Intellectual movement based on the study of the classics that included the study of philosophy

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humanism

Question 19

Machiavelli’s book; one of the most influential works on political power in the Western world

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The Prince

Question 20

This term meant that society was becoming more worldly and less spiritual

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secular

Question 21

Artist who strived to capture perfection beyond his realistic style

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Leonardo

Question 22

This Northern artist was among the first to use oil paints

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Jan van Eyck

Question 23

Name the 3 masters of the “High Renaissance”

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Leonardo, Michelangelo, Raphael

Question 24

She wrote in defense of women’s education as in The Book of the City of Ladies

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Christine de Pizan

Question 25

Who is the architect?

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Brunelleschi

Question 26

Dante, Shakespeare, and de Pizan were writers who wrote in their native tongue, also known as

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vernacular

Renaissance Art & Literature

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