Renaissance Questions
Name _______________________
Date____________________
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DIRECTIONS: Answer the following questions fro the textbook. Write your
answers in complete sentences. This means you begin capital letter and end with a
period. Restate the question to begin your answer. If you choose to use your own
paper please staple this page to it.
1. Where did the Renaissance start? 471
2. The Renaissance was an “explosion” of what?
3. What does the word Renaissance mean?
4. What family came to power in Florence? 472
5. Describe Cosimo De Medici’s power in society and government.
6. What two civilizations di Renaissance thinkers turn to in their learning?
7. Explain the concept of humanism?
8. What does the term secular mean?
9. Describe what it means to be a Patron of the arts.
10. What was the book The Coutier about?
11. What should the Renaissance man be able to do (according to the book)?
12. What should the Renaissance woman be able to do (according to the book)?
13. After reading the “Analyzing Art” inset on page 474, explain perspective.
14. After reading the paragraphs on Leonardo da Vinci (including ‘History Makers’ inset) on page
474, describe what he did and some of his famous creations.
15. After reading the paragraphs on Michelangelo (including the ‘History Makers’ inset) on page
474, describe what he did and some of his famous creations.
16. Who was Sofonisba Anguissola?
17. What was unique about Dante’s writings?
18. What does it mean to be written in the vernacular?
19. According to Machiavelli’s The Prince, what are the characteristics of a good Prince? 476
20. What parts of Europe did the ideas of the Renaissance spread to in the 1400s? 480
21. What kind of art d Albrecht Durer create? 481
22. Who was Jan van Eyck?
23. What was Erasmus’s most famous book about? 482
24. Describe Thomas Moore’s Utopia – what was it like there?
25. What were the topics of many of Shakespeare’s works? 483
26. What did Johann Gutenberg do in about 1455? 484
27. Besides borrowing the ideas of the Greeks and Romans, name two other changes in art during
the Renaissance. 485
28. List two changes in society that occurred during the Renaissance. 485