Renaissance Flashcard

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Which wealthy banking family patronized the arts and paid artists for creating new pieces?

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Medicis

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A secular way of thinking that focused on human potential and achievements:

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Humanism

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This famous Renaissance artist not only created works of art, he also drew inventions and anatomical drawings of the human body:

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Leonardo da Vinci

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This painting lacks perspective, making it appear flat and "cartoonish". This is an example of a painting from the:

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Middle Ages

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The ideas of the Renaissance were inspired by: Japan, France, Greece & Rome, England

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Greece & Rome

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This artist painted the ceiling of the Sistine Chapel:

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Michaelangelo

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the leading English language poet and playwright of the Renaissance

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Shakespeare

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printer who invented a printing press with movable type

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Gutenberg

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What most influenced the European Renaissance? Options: the artwork of ancient Egypt, the religion of ancient Mesopotamia, the ideas of ancient Greece and Rome, the technology of ancient China and India

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the ideas of ancient Greece and Rome

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Which of the following best defines the Renaissance?

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a period from the 1300s to 1500s that brought new beliefs, culture, and art to Europe