Renaissance in Italy

The rich Medici family was from the Italy city of

• Florence

• Rome

• Naples

• Bologna

What was the difference between Machiavelli's approach to leadership and Plato's approach?

• Plato was only talking about Greek leadership.

• Machiavelli did not discuss leadership in terms of high ideals.

• Plato did not discuss leadership in terms of high ideals.

• Machiavelli was only arguing about how rulers should have behaved in Ancient Rome.

__________ wrote a guide to rulers on how to gain and maintain power.

• Petrarch

• Machiavelli

• Raphael

• the Prince

The rules of __________ helped Renaissance painters to create realistic art.

• perspective

• humanism

• patrons

• Castiglione

A financial supporter of the arts is called a

• Florence

• patron

• comprehend

• perspective

Which Florentine master dissected corpses to learn how bones and muscles work?

• Filippo Brunelleschi

• Michelangelo

• Leonardo da Vinci

• Raphael

What new technique allowed objects in art to look rounded and more realistic?

• etching

• shading

• social art

• oils

__________ created the Pieta and painted the ceiling of the Sistine Chapel in Rome.

• Florence

• Raphael

• da Vinci

• Michelangelo

The Renaissance, which lasted from the 1300s to the 1500s, was a period of

• regional conflicts that ended in wars.

• empire building in Europe.

• creativity and change in Europe.

• traditionalism in Europe.

Why did the Renaissance begin in Italy?

• Renaissance thinkers were interested in the learning and art of ancient Rome.

• Renaissance thinkers had strong connections to the Church in Rome.

• A wealthy and powerful merchant class opposed any cultural rebirth.

• Italy's cities had not survived the Middle Ages, and thinkers wanted to restore them.