| Question | Answer |
| What was the Renaissance? | The rebirth of learning that started in Italy from 1300's -1600's |
| Why Italy? | -wealthy cities provided" patrons of the arts"
-Fall of Constantinople
-Ruins of ancient Rome |
| What are the differences between Medieval and Renaissance art? | -Important themes other than religion
-Movement and emotions more important
-Realism
-Perspective
-Sfumato
-Architecture more Romanesque |
| Patrons of Art | - Lorenzo De Medici
-Leo X
-Julius II |
| Who was Johannes Gutenberg? | Inventor of the printing press |
| Why was the invention of the printing press important? | -Made books cheaper to print and more widely available
-Literacy and education spread
-Spread ideas of Renaissance and Reformation |
| Leonardo Da Vinci | -Renaissance man
-Apprenticed to Verrochio
-Sfumato
-The Last Supper, the Mona Lisa
-Dissected over 30 bodies
-Mirror writing
-Designed planes,cannons,parachutes and tanks
-Died in France |
| Michelangelo | -Renaissance artist
-Platonic Academy
-The Pieta, David,St, Peters dome, Sistine Chapel (Julius II) |
| Galileo | -Father of Modern Science
-Invented pendulum clock and a more powerful telescope
-All solid objects fall at the same speed
-Proved Copernicus was right with saying the Earth moved around the sun (Had to say he was wrong infront of the inquisition) |
| Shakesphere | -Renaissance writer
-Stratford on Avon
-Married Anne Hathaway
-Moved to London without family
-Globe Theatre
-35 plays
-sonnets
-Comedies,tragedies and histories |
