Renaissance Test (2020-2021)

What leads to the Renaissance?

• Decline of Feudalism

• The rise of taxes

• The development of Modern day Europe

• The French Revolution

What is the Renaissance?

• Revival of Greek and Roman Culture

• Revival of Greek and Italian Culture

• Revival of Roman and English Culture

• Revival of Italian and English Culture

What European country did the Renaissance begin?

• Italy

• France

• England

• Rome

What is Humanism?

• The Concern with the classics and primarily with human being and thier values, capacities and achievements?

• The idea that humans can not thing for themselves.

• The concern with the ideas of ancient human beings.

• The idea that a new culture would develop over time.

What is a patron?

• Someone who loves art.

• Someone who hired artists to do art.

• Someone who spent most of their day looking at art.

• People who painted for a living.

What is Realism in Art?

• Using everyday life and using perspective to give depth to the art piece.
• Painting things that are real.
• using colors that we see in everyday life. 
• Making people look better then they a really are. 

This artists is responsible for the Completion of The David and the Sistine Chapel

• Michelangelo

• Da Vinic

• Donatello

• Raphael

This man was one of the greats writers of the English language.  His writings include tragedies, comedies and histories about everyday life. 

• William Shakespeare 
• Dante 
• Machiavelli 
• Edgar Allen Poe 

What is one way that Medieval and Renaissance artists differ?

• Renaissance art focuses more on religion
• Medieval artists were more realistic
• Renaissance artist turned to Roman and Greek works for inspiration
• They are the same

Which of these would be valued most by a Renaissance thinker who emphasized individualism?

• a nation's strength 
• a family's ancestors
• a person's achievements
• an army's success in battle