Chapter 15 Lesson 2: Ideas and Art of the Renaissance

  Dante’s masterpiece.

• humanism

• vernacular

• the Divine Comedy

• perspective

   It is a painting done on fresh, wet plaster with water-based paints.

• humanism

• vernacular

• fresco

• perspective

  An intellectual movement of the Renaissance based on the study of the humanities, which included grammar, rhetoric, poetry, moral philosophy and history

• humanism

• vernacular

• fresco

• perspective

   It is the language of everyday speech in a particular region.

• humanism

• vernacular

• fresco

• perspective

He is often called the father of Italian Renaissance humanism.

• Francesco Petrarch

• Michelangelo Buonarroti

• Leonardo da Vinci

•   Raphael Sanzio

At the age of 25, he was already one of Italy’s best painters.  He was admired for his numerous Madonna.

•   Francesco Petrarch

• Michelangelo Buonarroti

• Leonardo da Vinci

• Raphael Sanzio

His figures on the ceiling of the Sistine Chapel in Rome depict an ideal type of human being with perfect proportions.

• Francesco Petrarch

• Michelangelo Buonarroti

•   Leonardo da Vinci

• Raphael Sanzio

Humanist educators thought that education was a practical preparation for life. Its aim was to create well-rounded citizens, not great scholars.

• True

• False

Byzantine and Islamic influences were not important to the development of Renaissance humanism.  

• True

• False

The humanists felt a different relationship with the writers of antiquity. They saw the ancient Greek and Roman writers as their intellectual equals. 

• True

• False