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

Giotto:

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.

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

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

Niccolo Machiavelli was:

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

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

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

was the first italian to use oil paints:

A) Raphael
B) Michelangelo
C) Leaonardo da Vinci

Masaccio:

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

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

A) Ghiberti
B) Donatello
C) Leonardo da Vinici

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

A) Leonardo da vinici
B) Michelangelo
C) Raphael

Humanism in the Northern Renaissance came to be called what?

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

Johannes Gutenberg lived where?

A) Northern Germany
B) In Folkestone, England
C) Mainz in the German Rhineland
D) Frankfurt, 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 VI
B) Edward VI
C) Edward V
D) Henry VII

He sculpted several pietas and painted a famous chapel:

A) Michelangelo
B) Leonardo
C) Raphael

Sandro Botticelli:

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