Renaissance Test

1. What historical event (the fall of a civilization) took place in 395 AD to usher in the middle ages?
Fall of Rome

2. What was society and culture generally like in the middle ages?
Not many people know how to read and write, people are usually very poor and very rich.
3. Renaissance means _______Rebirth________.

4. What was being brought back during this time?
Greeks and Rome ideals
Define:
5. Contraposto
Paint the shape or the curve of human body
6. Chiaroscuro
Paint dark and light like shadow
7. The painter of the Mona Lisa was ______Da Vinci__________

8. The man who sculpted the Pieta and the Sistine Chapel was _____Michelangelo____

9. What is different about Renaissance painting compared to painting during the Dark Ages?
No contraposto and no chiaroscuro
10. What is meant by the concept of "Humanism?"
People are perfect and good