Renaissance and Art

What does the word renaissance mean?

• recreate

• reemerge

• rebirth

• reinvent

Where did the Renaissance begin?

• Milan

• Italy

• Britain

• Florence

During the Renaissance, people became interested in

• mathematics.

• the ancient Greeks and Romans.

• Petrarch.

• gold.

Why were the Medicis important to the Renaissance?

• The commissioned many expeditions.

• They started a university in Florence.

• They believed in the teachings of Luther.

• They were patrons of the arts.

A political, social, economic, and cultural "rebirth" from the 1300's to the 1500's C.E.

• Middle Ages

• Reformation

• Classical Era

• Renaissance

Painted the Mona Lisa and The Last Supper

• Jan van Eyck

• Machiavelli

• Michelangelo

• Leonardo da Vinci

Renaissance artist who painted the Sistine Chapel ceiling and sculpted The David.

• Jan van Eyck

• Michelangelo

• Machiavelli

• Leonardo da Vinci

The Renaissance emerged from Italian city-states like Florence, Venice, and Genoa.

• True

• False

Intellectual movement that focused on human potential and studying subjects like rhetoric, history, poetry, and grammar.

• Humanism

• Middle Ages

• Classical Era

• Crusades

Which statement describes a characteristic of the Renaissance in Europe?

• The social structure became very rigid

• rebirth of Greek and Roman culture and ideas

• The political structure was disorganized

• Humanism decreased in importance