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Guided Reading Activity
The Renaissance in Europe
Lesson 2 Ideas and Art of the Renaissance
Review Questions: Outlining
DIRECTIONS: Read the lesson and complete the outline below. Refer to your textbook to fill in the blanks.
(When answering online, separate multiple responses with a comma and one space.)
I. Italian Renaissance Humanism
1. _______________, an important intellectual movement of the Renaissance, was based on the study
of the _______________, which included the literature of ancient Greece and Rome.
2. _______________, known as the father of Italian Renaissance humanism, began the emphasis on
using pure classical _______________.
3. Some Italian writers, such as _______________, author of the Divine Comedy, wrote in the
_______________, the local spoken language.
II. Renaissance Education
4. The increasingly _______________ focus of education in the humanist movement led to a core of
topics called _______________.
5. Humanist educators believed that the purpose of education was to create _______________ citizens,
and they stressed the importance of preparing the _______________ as well as the mind by
emphasizing physical education.
6. German printer _______________ pioneered a new kind of printing that used _______________.
7. The printing of books encouraged scholarly _______________ and helped stimulate the reading
public’s desire to acquire _______________.
III. Italian Renaissance Art
8. Two major developments, an emphasis on the _______________ side of painting and study of
movement and human _______________, helped Renaissance artists achieve the realistic portrayal of
the individual.
9. Like painters, Renaissance _______________ and _______________ sought to portray a humancentered world.
10. During the High Renaissance, master painters such as Raphael, _______________, and
_______________ captured the perfection of nature and of the individual in their art.
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IV. The Northern Artistic Renaissance
11. Flemish painter _______________, who was among the first to use the technique of
_______________, portrayed objects realistically by focusing on their fine details.
Summary and Reflection
DIRECTIONS: Summarize the main ideas of this lesson by answering the question below.
12. How did the ideas of the Renaissance influence art and education?
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Answer Key
1. Humanism, classics
2. Petrarch, Latin
3. Dante, vernacular
4. secular, liberal studies
5. well-rounded, body
6. Johannes Gutenberg, movable type
7. research, knowledge
8. technical, anatomy
9. sculptors, architects (either order)
10. Leonardo da Vinci, Michelangelo (either order)
11. Jan van Eyck, oil painting
12. A complete answer should include: technology contributed to the rise of and desire for literacy;
humanist educators’ goal to create well­rounded citizens; humanism’s focus on the individual
influenced Renaissance artists.
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