The Renaissance

What was the Renaissance?

• Style of Medieval architecture

• Style of architecture influenced by Greece and Rome.

• To make or become different.

• 'Rebirth' or 'revival' of classical learning.

What was tempera?

• Technique used to give paintings a 3D effect.

• Paint made from egg yolk and colour pigment.

• Italian for 'smoky', technique used to blend colours and edges

• Painting done on wet plaster

Define sfumato.

• Paint made from egg yolk and colour pigment.

• Philosophy that celebrates human cultural achievements.

• A circular stained glass window.

• Italian for 'smoky', technique used to blend colours and edges.

What is perspective?

• Triangular section of a temple roof.

• A person who buys and sells goods.

• Technique used to give paintings a 3D effect.

• Objects, regardless of weight, will fall at the same speed.

What is humanism?

• Inventor of the printing press.

• Philosophy that celebrates human cultural achievements.

• Objects, regardless of weight, fall at the same speed.

• Painting completed by da Vinci in a refectory in Milan.

What is a fresco?

• The study of body structure.

• Everyday language of ordinary people.

• Technique used to blend details to make them more realistic.

• Painting done on wet plaster.

Who was Leonardo da Vinci?

• Renaissance Man, Painter of the Mona Lisa.

• Painter responsible for the ceiling of the Sistine Chapel.

• Female artist from the Renaissance.

• Astronomer. Showed that plants revolve around the sun.

What is the Last Supper?

• Painting by da Vinci of a female with a unique expression.

• Painting completed by da Vinci in a monastery in Milan.

• Painting by Michelangelo.

• Michelangelo's most famous sculpture.

What is the Mona Lisa?

• Representation of Mary mourning over the body of Christ.

• Inventor of the printing press.

• Painting completed by da Vinci in a monastery in Milan.

• Painting by da Vinci of a female with a unique expression.

What is mirror writing?

• Painting done on wet plaster.

• The study of body structure.

• Everyday language of ordinary people.

• Writing from right to left.