Renaissance Study Guide:
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What was the Renaissance all about?
When did the Renaissance begin?
Where did the Renaissance begin?
How was Italy separated?
When invention accelerated the Renaissance?
Did the status of the artists increase or decrease?
Was Brunelleschi an important artist during the Renaissance? Michelangelo?
Botticelli?
8. What was the artistic technique that made paintings look 3-D?
9. What city is considered “The Cradle of the Renaissance”?
10. What 2 industries was Florence chiefly dependent on?
11. What family was the most powerful in Florence?
12. Cosimo and Lorenzo de Medici were patrons of what kind of people?
13. The great cathedral in the center of Florence is what?
14. What is the pope’s job?
15. What is the most important church in Rome?
16. Which city is built on more than 100 islands?
17. How did Venice become wealthy?
18. What is the title of the ruler of Venice?
19. What was Leonardo da Vinci known for?
20. What were Leonardo’s three most famous paintings?
21. Michelangelo’s masterpiece was what?
22. What did Castiglione write?
23. What is the main message of Machiavelli’s The Prince?
24. Why is Shakespeare considered a “Renaissance man”?
25. Who was Don Quixote?
Be able to match the following vocabulary words with the correct definition:
Apprentice
Fresco
Basilica
Chateau
Lagoon
Mason
Patron
Prior
Infallible
Apothecary