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History
History(The Renaissance)
| Question | Answer |
|---|---|
| What does renaissance mean? | Rebirth |
| When did the Renaissance begin? | During the late middle ages |
| What years the the renaissance last? | 1450 to 1650 |
| Where did the renaissance begin? | Italy |
| Give a reason why the renaissance began in Italy | Italians wanted to learn more about ancient Rome. |
| What is a sculptor? | A person who makes statues or carvings out of stone and other objects |
| What is an architect? | A person who plans and designs buildings |
| Name a renaissance city | Florence, Itlay |
| Give two ways in witch medieval paintings differed from renaissance paintings | Medieval paintings were flat + lifeless, renaissance paintings were very lifelike. Medieval art usually dealt with religious objects only,renaissance artists were influenced by humanism + therefore painted secular(non-religious)aswel as religious paintngs |
| Name a famous renaissance painting and its artist | The Mona Lisa, Leonardo DeVinci |
| Who painted Bacchus and Ariadne? | Titan |
| Who painted the school of Athens? | Raphael |
| What is the meaning of the word Fresco? | Fresh |
| Name a Patron of art | The Medici family, Florence |
| Who was Lorenzo di Medici? | A famous patron of the arts during the renaissance |
| Where did he rule? | The city-state of Florence |
| What was the occupation of the Medici's? | Extremely wealthy bankers |
| Who did they loan money to? | Many people including kings and popes |
| When was Lorenzo born? | 1449 |
| When did he become the ruler of Florence? | When he was 20 |
| Lorenzo had other talents apart from banking, what were they? | An athlete and a poet |
| What was Lorenzo also know as? | Lorenzo the magnificent |
| Name two people under Lorenzo's patronage | Leonardo da Vinci(Painted the Mona Lisa) and Michelangelo(Sculpted the statue of David) |
| Who painted the Birth of Venus? | Sandro Botticelli |
| Name a patron of the arts from Rome | Pope Leo X |
| Who sculpted the statue of David? | Michaelangelo |
| Who was Leonardo da Vinci? | A famous painter,inventor and all-round genius |
| What were the years of da Vinci | 1452-1519 |
| Who was Verrocchio? | Leonardo da Vinci's father |
| Where was da Vinci born | Vinci, Florence, Italy |
| What two paintings did Leonardo da Vinci paint whilst in Milan? | The Virgin of the Rocks and The Last Supper |
| What were Leonardo's notebooks in? | Mirror writing |
| What was mirror writing? | Bach to front, right to left |
| What did da Vinci study? | Biology(plants and animals) |
| What did da Vinci love drawing? | interesting faces(he sometimes followed people until they let him draw them |
| Name two inventions bu Leonrado da Vinci | An aeroplane and a submarine |
| Name two famous architects during the Renaissance | Fillipo Burnelleschi and Andrea Palladio |
| Who was Galileo Galilei? | A professor of matematics |
| What did Galileo do? | He discovered that items of different weights fell at the same speed and he developed the pendulum clock and he discovered that the earth revolved around the sun |
| What the church court do to Galileo | He was imprisoned and threatened with torture because he wrote a book called the dialogue in the vernacular where he contradicted the bible |
| List two facts about women during the renaissance | They were given little education, they were forbidden to attended universities, and forbidden to study the male body |
| Name a famous writer during the Renaissance | William Shakespeare |
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