World Civ 111 Renaissance Quiz

One of the Tuscan Triumvirate of Renaissance writers--wrote 'Divine Comedy'

A) Giovanni Boccaccio
B) Dante Alighieri
C)Francesco Petrarca

John Wycliffe was a(n)

A) Renaissance Author
B) 14th Century english Refomer
C) the king of england during the early 14th century
D)15th Century Protestant Leader

Giotto:

A) Began painting using light and shade.
B) Used perspective and painted "THe holy trinity"
C) Used vivid colors and painted " The birth of Venus"

This Pope was a Medici and was Pope during the beginning of Luther's reformation.

A) Julius II
B) Leo X
C) Sixtus IV
D) Alexander VI

Niccolo Machiavelli was:

A) The president
B) An italian Renaissance political writer
C) An important humanist in the Italian Renaissance

One of the Tuscan Triumverate of Renaissance writers--developed the Italian sonnet and became important in literary humanism.

A) Francesco Petrarca
B) Giovanni Boccaccio
C) Dante Alighieri

was the first italian to use oil paints:

A) Raphael
B) Leaonardo da Vinci
C) Michelangelo

Masaccio:

A) Used perspective and painted "Explusion From"
B) Used vivid colors and painted "the birth of Venus
C) Began painting using light and shade

Sculpted the first free-standing nude in Europe since Roman times.

A) Donatello
B) Leonardo da Vinici
C) Ghiberti

He was known for his Madonnas and humanized portrayals of Mary and Jesus:

A) Michelangelo
B) Raphael
C) Leonardo da vinici

Humanism in the Northern Renaissance came to be called what?

A) Florentine humanism
B) Neo- humanism
C) Christian humanis
D) German humanism

Johannes Gutenberg lived where?

A) Mainz in the German Rhineland
B) In Folkestone, England
C) Frankfurt, Germany
D) Northern Germany

This late 15th Century English King won the Wars of the Roses, reduced the power of the Nobility and Parliament, and helped war-torn England heal:

A) Henry VII
B) Henry VI
C) Edward V
D) Edward VI

He sculpted several pietas and painted a famous chapel:

A) Raphael
B) Leonardo
C) Michelangelo

Sandro Botticelli:

A) Used vivid colors and painted "The birth of venus"
B) Used perspective and painted "the holy Trinity
C) Began painting using light and shade