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Renaissance Packet
General Characteristic of the Renaissance Questions:
1. What does Renaissance mean? __________________________________________________________________
2. What kinds of discoveries were made? ____________________________________________________________
3. What did Copernicus try to prove? _______________________________________________________________
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4. What did Martin Luther do? ____________________________________________________________________
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5. The study of the Renaissance might well center on five interrelated issues. What are they?
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6. What did the Renaissance thinkers associate themselves with? ________________________________________
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7. What did the Renaissance thinkers try to disassociate themselves from? ________________________________
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8. What does “hierarchal” mean? _________________________________________________________________
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9. An object’s “place” depended on what? __________________________________________________________
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10. What was at the bottom? ______________________________________________________________________
11. What was higher up? __________________________________________________________________________
12. What was alchemy based on? ___________________________________________________________________
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13. What did the Renaissance thinkers view humans as? ________________________________________________
14. These thinkers thought that the human body was composed of these. What were they called and how many
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15. Humans were placed in between what two things? _________________________________________________
16. What was Italian philosopher Pico della Mirandola’s work called? ______________________________________
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17. What did this work do? _______________________________________________________________________
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18. What did Humanism give? _____________________________________________________________________
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19. What does Humanism regard human beings as? ____________________________________________________
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20. In the Middle Ages what had great value attached to it? _____________________________________________
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21. In the Renaissance, the highest cultural values were associated with what? ______________________________
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22. Explain the concept of the “Renaissance Man”. _____________________________________________________
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23. Write both definitions of “imitation” and say which one the Renaissance thinkers tried to focus on more.
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24. What was an effect of the doctrine of “imitation”? __________________________________________________
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25. What did the Reformation reject? ________________________________________________________________
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26. What was the story written by Chaucer? __________________________________________________________
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27. What was one of the most important tenets of Protestantism? ________________________________________
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28. What did Protestants believe? __________________________________________________________________
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Leonardo da Vinci Activities:
1. When and where was Leonardo da Vinci born? _____________________________________________________
2. Before the Renaissance, what were paintings like? __________________________________________________
3. What kind of art did Leonardo da Vinci study? ______________________________________________________
4. How did da Vinci paint his human figures? _________________________________________________________
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5. What is one of his most famous drawings called? What was it of? _____________________________________
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6. What was medieval art not good at doing? ________________________________________________________
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7. What are some of the other things that da Vinci was besides an artist? _________________________________
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Michelangelo Activities:
1. What was Michelangelo? _______________________________________________________________________
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2. What are some of his most famous works called? ___________________________________________________
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3. What is the Sistine Chapel? ____________________________________________________________________
4. Which other famous place does the Sistine Chapel compare to in size? __________________________________
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5. Who were the first two painters to paint the Sistine Chapel? Who commissioned them? ____________________
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6. Who decided to change the decoration of the chapel? In what year? ___________________________________
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7. How many years did Michelangelo work on the project? _____________________________________________
8. What happened to him because he did this project ________________________________________________
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9. What did Michelangelo depict on the ceiling of this chapel? Give some examples. ________________________
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Donatello Questions:
1. What was Donatello? _________________________________________________________________________
2. Where and when was he born? _________________________________________________________________
3. What style of art did he learn while he was an apprentice? ___________________________________________
4. What is Donatello’s real name? __________________________________________________________________
5. Where was he educated? ______________________________________________________________________
6. Where did these two travel to learn about classical art? _____________________________________________
7. What is one of Donatello’s famous sculptures called and where can it be found? _________________________
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8. Where can the sculpture of St. Mark be found? ____________________________________________________
9. Where can the sculpture of St. John the Evangelist be found? _________________________________________
10. Who did Donatello enter into a partnership with in 1425? ____________________________________________
11. Who did they make tombs for? __________________________________________________________________
12. What was Donatello’s second David sculpture made out of? __________________________________________
13. In 1450, Donatello completed a statue. What was it called? What was so special about it? __________________
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14. In 1455, Donatello created another statue. What was it called? ________________________________________
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15. What was his student’s name? __________________________________________________________________
Raphael Activities:
1. What was Raphael’s real name? _________________________________________________________________
2. What was he? _______________________________________________________________________________
3. Where was he born? __________________________________________________________________________
4. What did his father do for a living? _______________________________________________________________
5. What was the difference between Michelangelo and Raphael socially? __________________________________
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6. What did he paint in 1503 that was held in high regard? _____________________________________________
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7. Who commissioned him to paint some rooms in the Vatican? _________________________________________
8. Who overshadowed him at the same time? Because of what famous artwork? ____________________________
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9. What were some of his famous pieces called? ______________________________________________________
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10. In addition to being a painter, what else was he? ___________________________________________________
11. Where was his school, and how big was it? ________________________________________________________
12. What other “jobs” did he have? _________________________________________________________________
13. The School of Athens represents what? ___________________________________________________________
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14. Who is located in the center? ___________________________________________________________________
15. What book is one of them holding? ______________________________________________________________
16. Why does one of them point up? ________________________________________________________________
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17. Why does the other hold his hand down? _________________________________________________________
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18. What book does the man with his hand down hold? _________________________________________________
19. Who is in the lower left corner? _________________________________________________________________
20. Who is in the bottom right corner? ______________________________________________________________
21. Who was next to him? ________________________________________________________________________
22. Who proved him wrong? ______________________________________________________________________
23. Where is Raphael located in this painting? ________________________________________________________