A period of rebirth and creativity in art, writing, and thought from about 1300 to 1600 A.D., beginning in Italy and eventually spreading throughout Europe.
Renaissance
Humanism
arts
patron
2. Multiple Choice
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A movement in Renaissance Europe, celebrating human potential and achievement and stressing the study of subjects such as history, grammar, literature, and philosophy.
Renaissance
Humanism
arts
patron
3. Multiple Choice
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A broad range of cultural activities and creations.
Renaissance
Humanism
arts
patron
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A person who supports an activity or institution by providing financial backing.
Renaissance
Humanism
arts
patron
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An Italian city-state and leading cultural center during the Renaissance.
Florence
city-state
Leonardo Da Vinci
Brunelleschi
6. Multiple Choice
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An independent state consisting of a city and its surrounding territory.
Florence
city-state
Leonardo Da Vinci
Brunelleschi
7. Multiple Choice
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1 pt
An Italian Renaissance painter, born in 1452 A.D., who painted many masterpieces, such as the Mona Lisa and The Last Supper, and also excelled in scientific research.
Florence
city-state
Leonardo Da Vinci
Brunelleschi
8. Multiple Choice
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1 pt
Architect best known for designing and building large domes for churches; especially the Duomo in Florence.
Florence
city-state
Leonardo Da Vinci
Brunelleschi
9. Multiple Choice
30 seconds
1 pt
The most famous English writer of the Renaissance, best known for his plays Romeo and Juliet and Hamlet.
Shakespeare
Michelangelo
Raphael
Petrarch
10. Multiple Choice
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An Italian Renaissance artist, born in 1475 A.D., who worked mainly as a sculptor but also painted such famous works as the ceiling of the Sistine Chapel in Rome.
Shakespeare
Michelangelo
Raphael
Petrarch
11. Multiple Choice
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1 pt
Italian artist of Florence who studied the great works by Leonardo da Vinci and appreciated the classical period. His most famous works was The School of Athens.
Shakespeare
Michelangelo
Raphael
Petrarch
12. Multiple Choice
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1 pt
The early leader of the Humanist movement, an Italian poet and scholar. One of the first thinkers to stress the value of classical learning, teachings of Greece and Rome.
Shakespeare
Michelangelo
Raphael
Petrarch
13. Multiple Choice
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A German who, in the mid-1400s, invented a press for printing with movable type.
Johann Gutenberg
Elizabethan Age
Renaissance Man
vernacular
14. Multiple Choice
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The period during the rule of Queen Elizabeth I in England, from 1558 to 1603 A.D.
Johann Gutenberg
Elizabethan Age
Renaissance Man
vernacular
15. Multiple Choice
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One who excels in many different fields of study.
Johann Gutenberg
Elizabethan Age
Renaissance Man
vernacular
16. Multiple Choice
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A person’s native language.
Johann Gutenberg
Elizabethan Age
Renaissance Man
vernacular
17. Multiple Choice
30 seconds
1 pt
A machine for pressing paper against inked movable type.
printing press
perspective
Renaissance Man
vernacular
18. Multiple Choice
30 seconds
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A technique of painting, developed during the Renaissance, that represents the appearance of objects in three-dimensional space.