What word means the 'rebirth' of art and learning that began in Italy?
Which Renaissance artist painted the Mona Lisa?
Which Renaissance artist painted the ceiling of the Sistine Chapel?
What machine built by Johannes Gutenberg let books be printed quickly?
What was the Renaissance?
What is humanism?
Who created the ceiling frescoes of the Sistine Chapel?
Hint: He painted the ceiling between 1508 and 1512, though he thought of himself first as a sculptor.
What did Gutenberg's printing press (c. 1440) accomplish?
Who wrote 'The Prince' and what did it argue?
Why did the Renaissance begin in Italy?
What was Leonardo da Vinci known for?
How did the Northern Renaissance in places like Germany and the Netherlands differ from the Italian Renaissance?
Hint: Think about how figures like Erasmus and painters such as Jan van Eyck differed in emphasis from Florentine humanists and artists.
Why did wealthy families like the Medici invest heavily in patronizing Renaissance artists and scholars?
Hint: Consider what a family gained in reputation and influence, beyond the artwork itself, by funding celebrated painters and thinkers.
Renaissance thinkers revived classical texts, yet most remained devout Christians rather than rejecting faith. How do historians typically explain this combination?
Hint: Think about Erasmus, who studied Cicero and the Bible together rather than choosing one over the other.
How did the rediscovery of ancient Greek and Roman manuscripts, partly through contact with Byzantine scholars, shape the Renaissance?
Hint: Consider what happened to Greek scholars and their libraries after events like the fall of Constantinople in 1453.
A historian argues that the Renaissance ideal of the 'universal man' reflected a distinctly new view of human potential compared to medieval thought. Which comparison best supports that claim?
Hint: Think about a figure like Leonardo da Vinci, who worked as painter, engineer, and anatomist at once — what attitude toward human capability does that reflect?
Who wrote 'The Faerie Queene'?
What is a sonnet?
What is the rhyme scheme of a Shakespearean (English) sonnet?
What is the rhyme scheme of a Petrarchan (Italian) sonnet?
What is iambic pentameter?
Who published the heliocentric model in 1543, placing the Sun at the center of the solar system?
What was the title of Copernicus's revolutionary book?
Who was the first person to use a telescope for systematic astronomical observations?
What did Galileo discover about Jupiter using his telescope?
What did Galileo observe about Venus that supported the heliocentric model?
Who discovered that planets move in elliptical (not circular) orbits?
How many laws of planetary motion did Kepler formulate?
Who was Tycho Brahe?
Hint: Kepler used his data to derive the laws of planetary motion
What is Kepler's First Law of Planetary Motion?
Who wrote 'The Faerie Queene'?
What is a sonnet?
What is the rhyme scheme of a Shakespearean (English) sonnet?