Renaissance Vocabulary Worksheet

Fill in the blank using the word bank: ____________________ native language (during the renaissance many writers used their native language).

• Vernacular

• Common

• Universal

• Formal

Fill in the blank using the word bank: ____________________ Paintings were 2-D (flat), Bright paint colors and backgrounds are 1 color (often gold).

• Medieval Art

• Renaissance Art

• Impressionist Art

• Modern Art

Who built a self-supporting dome?

• Filippo Brunelleschi

• Leonardo da Vinci

• Michelangelo

• Raphael

Fill in the blank using the word bank: ____________________ was a movement of great creativity in the arts, writing, and thinking that took place in Italy.

• The Renaissance (Rebirth)

• The Industrial Revolution

• The Enlightenment

• The Gothic Era

Fill in the blank using the word bank: ____________________ wanted people to be independent thinkers and inspired a new sense of possibility.

• Humanism

• Renaissance

• Enlightenment

• Romanticism

Fill in the blank using the word bank: ____________________ used perspective, 3D, Artists showed people more realistically. Artist created religious and non-religious pieces.

• Renaissance Art

• Medieval Art

• Baroque Art

• Impressionist Art

Fill in the blank using the word bank: ____________________ This artist was both a sculptor and a painter. His most famous works were David, La Pieta, and the Sistine Chapel.

• Michelangelo

• Leonardo da Vinci

• Raphael

• Donatello

Who invented the Printing Press?

• Johann Gutenberg

• Thomas Edison

• Alexander Graham Bell

• Nikola Tesla

____________________ was an Artist, architect, mathematician, inventor; Studied anatomy to draw more realistic figures, Painted the portrait known as "Mona Lisa".

• Leonardo da Vinci

• Michelangelo

• Raphael

• Donatello

____________________ allowed for more accurate maps and better exploration.

• Cartography

• Astronomy

• Biology

• Geology