The Renaissance

During this time period much of the classical culture of Greece and Rome was lost in Western Europe

• Renaissance

• Enlightenment

• New Stone Ag3

• Middle Ages

The age of great change marked by renewed interest in classical learning and the arts is called the

• Reformation

• Middle Ages

• Renaissance

• Medieval Enlightenment

The Renaissance began around 1300 in the city-states of

• Spain

• Italy

• England

• France

One way that Renaissance artists reflected the new ideas of humanism was by painting

• scenes that appeared three-dimensional

• stylized rather than realistic people

• large, Gothic-style buildings

• well-known people of the day

He started a printing revolution

• Isaac Newton

• Johann Gutenberg

• Johann Tetzel

• John Calvin

Humanist scholars differed from medieval thinkers in that humanists

• rejected the learning of Greece and Rome

• used Latin as their language for scholarship

• tended to focus more on worldly subjects

• tended to focus more on spirituality

Who assembled a library of Greek and Roman manuscripts preserving the works of Cicero, Homer, and Virgil

• Francesco Petrarch

• Thomas More

• Francis Bacon

• Thomas Cranmer

The Last Supper and the Mona Lisa were the work of the great artist

• Michelangelo

• Leonardo da Vinci

• Piero Della Francesca

• Sandro Botticelli

The city that produced many Renaissance artists and scholars with the support of the Medici family

• Florence

• Flanders

• Rome

• Kiev

The artist who made sketches of flying machines centuries before the first airplane

• Michelangelo

• Donatello

• Leonardo da Vinci

• Splinter