Download Engineering an Empire Da Vincis World Qs

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Engineering an Empire:
Da Vinci’s World
1. In the 12th and 13th centuries, Italy is beginning its rebirth because what’s happening is that
is being reinstituted onto the peninsula, mainly through the Holy Roman
Empire.
2. New rulers of the Italian city-states emerge, they are the
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3. Wealth bought power and power could buy
and architecture.
4. The foundation for the Renaissance is
. Everything that happens in the
Renaissance from art, to architecture, engineering, literature, all depend upon the city.
5. What resource was necessary for the prosperity and success of Siena?
How did they bring this source to the city?
6. Why did Siena stop being a center of power in Italy?
7. Humanism is an interest in the
8. Renaissance literally means
world.
, or revival.
9. The da Medicis, one of the wealthiest families in Florence led the way to regain the glory
that had been
, restoring it in Florence.
10. Patrons are using artists and architects to celebrate
11. The Duomo, or cathedral of Florence, was finished by
12. Bunelleschi studied
architecture, especially the
13. What is the single point of perspective in the distance called?
(this allowed the concept of a blueprint to emerge)
14. Pope Pius II commissioned an
city.
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15. A lot of Florence is sick of the de Medicis, and have been listening to a small Dominican
friar, named Savonarola, who advocated a return to a Florentine
16. What new weapon could destroy medieval walls?
17. Italy’s center of power and glory would now return to the city that conquered the world:
18. Why did the focus shift back to Rome?
19. To clean up Rome, Pope Sixtus V had all the vandals rounded up and
20. Many people think that it is with the Renaissance that
begins.
culture