World History Chapter 11 Test

The Renaissance’s emphasis on the secular helped weaken moral restraints, making the need for reform more readily appare

What Italian city, because of its beauty, pride, and wealth, became known as the Queen of the Adriatic?

Who was the Dominican friar who tried to bring reform to the church in Florence?

Who was the most versatile man of the Renaissance?

“little dyer” from Venice

The birthplace of the Renaissance was

book of manners

Father of Renaissance Painting

leading Venetian painter known for portraits and rich colors

Erasmus’s In Praise of Folly points out the evils and the follies of Renaissance society.

added movement to paintings with figures that seemed to sway

movable-type printing

Although many Renaissance humanists were primarily interested in classical learning, most of them were church members an

artist who was best known for his engravings and woodcuts

versatile artist who also studied the sciences

Renaissance is a French word meaning what?

The Renaissance humanists stimulated a rebirth of interest in the literature, art, and philosophy of the classical age.

artist who painted portraits of Henry VIII, More, and Erasmus

Which of the following is not a distortion found in Michelangelo’s Pietà?

new edition of the Greek New Testament

People of the Renaissance praised the wonders of group achievement.

Which three of the following Renaissance artists exemplify the best of the High Renaissance?

Which of the following is not true about Botticelli?

The most famous Renaissance patrons were members of which family?

Which of the following is not a reason that Italy led the Renaissance?

created a three-dimensional effect by shading

Movable-type printing brought about all the following consequences except

The secular age of the Renaissance prepared the way for the

adviser to Henry VIII who described an ideal state

The best-known composer of Renaissance church music was

What ceiling depicts in fresco the story of Creation, the Fall, the Flood, and Redemption?

Which of the following was the most popular instrument of the Renaissance?

Brunelleschi defeated Ghiberti in a competition to build the

Sistine Chapel wall painting The Last Judgment

Machiavelli’s The Prince promotes the concept of an expedient ruler free from moral restraints.

The Renaissance’s focus on man’s worth and capacities has been called what?

The Venetian love of money, rich clothing, and decoration is manifested in the Venetian artists’ emphasis on merchants,

The Italian painter Giotto is known for his frescoes, which are

doors made of ten bronze panels known as the “Gates of Paradise”

Renaissance artists differed from medieval artists in that Renaissance artists wanted no recognition for their work.

painted The School of Athens

cast the first full-scale equestrian statue since Roman times

Which humanist wrote that a successful ruler uses force when necessary, for “it is much safer to be feared than loved”?

genre painter of scenes from everyday life

satire on chivalry