1. In what city did the Renaissance begin?
Florence, Italy

2. What family was most responsible for funding the early renaissance?
Medici family

3. Who was the most famous painter to come out of Venice?
Titian

4. Who is the best example of a Renaissance Man?
Leonardo da Vinci

5. What term refers to someone who excels in many areas of study?
Renaissance Man

6. Raphael painted it Leonardo da Vinci’s face = Plato
Who painted the School of Athens? Whose face represents Plato in the center?
Raphael painted it
Leonardo da Vinci’s face = Plato

7. What political theorist supported the idea of “the end justifies the means?”
Machiavelli

8. Who was the court painter for Henry VIII of England?
Hans Holbein

9. What area was considered the artistic capital of Northern Europe?
Flanders (Holland & Belgium)

10. What Northern artist was known for his outstanding woodcuts and for painting himself as a Renaissance Man?
Albrecht Durer

11. What book was written by Cervantes to criticize the Middle Ages?
Don Quixote

12. Who was the father of Humanism?
Petrarch

13. Wanted a divorce from his 1st wife
Over what issue did Henry VIII break his country away from the Catholic Church?
Wanted a divorce from his 1st wife

14. Who wrote the book Utopia, describing an ideal society?
Sir Thomas More

15. Belief that focused more on the individual than on the importance of the Church and also stressed classical learning…
Humanism

16. What agreement to end religious hostilities in the Holy Roman Empire gave the ruler the right to choose the religion for his realm?
Peace of Augsburg

17. When (exact date) did the Protestant Reformation begin?
Oct. 31, 1517

18. In what year was the printing press “invented” in the West and by whom?
Johan Gutenberg in 1455

19. The major religious doctrine associated with John Calvin stating God chose those who would go to Heaven before they were born…
predestination

20. Justification by faith
The most fundamental difference between Protestants and Catholics centers on which of Martin Luther’s main ideas?
Justification by faith

21. 95 Theses Posted on the door of the Church in Wittenberg, Germany
What was the name of Martin Luther’s list of ideas and where did he post it?
95 Theses
Posted on the door of the Church in Wittenberg, Germany

22. What is the official religion of Scotland?
Presbyterian

23. Who took John Calvin’s religious ideas to Scotland?
John Knox

24. In what city did a religious theocracy exist that banned such things as cards, theater, and dancing?
Geneva, Switzerland

25. In John Calvin’s theocracy, this group was a board of pastors and elders that reviewed people’s behavior.
Consistory

26. Who painted Bacchus and Ariadne?
Titian

27. What is the world’s most revered religious painting? Who painted it?
The Last Supper
Leonardo da Vinci

28. What was the first life sized free standing nude statue since the Classical Period? Who sculpted it?
Donatello’s David

29. Who sculpted a 14+ foot tall defiant statue for the city of Florence
Who sculpted a 14+ foot tall defiant statue for the city of Florence? What was the sculpture of?
Michelangelo’s David

30. What was considered Michelangelo’s greatest “painted” masterpiece?
Ceiling of the Sistine Chapel

31. What religion believed only adults could be baptized and thus obtain salvation?
Anabaptists

32. What are the four characteristics of Renaissance Art?
Painted on canvas
Pyramid configuration
Light and shadow (make it look 3D)
Perspective (background is smaller)

33. Jan van Eyck Rich people
Who painted the Arnolifini Wedding? This picture describes a wedding of two people from what class?
Jan van Eyck
Rich people

34. Who was known as the Flemish Painter of Peasants?
Pieter Bruegel

35. If a painting depicted a scene from everyday life, it was MOST likely painted where?
In the North of Europe

36. What did the Edict of Nantes do?
Provided religious freedom to Protestants in France

37. What did the Edict of Worms declare?
Martin Luther was a criminal and a heretic

38. What three things did the Jesuits do? Who founded the order?
Ignatius of Loyola
Created schools, sent missionaries, sought to stop the spread of Protestantism

39. What were French Protestants called? Most were from what class?
Huguenots
Nobility

40. Who was responsible for the design and construction of the dome atop the Cathedral in Florence?
Brunelleschi

41. Who was responsible for creating a set of Bronze Doors for the baptistery in a Cathedral in Florence?
Ghiberti

42. What Dutch author wrote the Praise of Folly?
Erasmus

43. What term refers to the everyday language of the people?
vernacular

44. What is the only work Michelangelo ever signed?
The Pieta

45. What painting marked the rebirth of classical mythology in art?
Botticelli’s Birth of Venus