Study Guide: Ch. 10 – The Renaissance
Instructions: You are not required to turn this in. This is simply a list of questions you should be able to answer prior to the test. Many of these have already been answered in your reading questions.
1. What were the general characteristics of the Renaissance?
2. What is Humanism and what role did it play in the Renaissance?
3. How did the Renaissance and Humanism impact art? Architecture? Literature?
4. What was the relationship between Humanism and religion? Why?
5. Who were some of the important classical figures? Why were they important?
6. Describe the social and political make-up of the Italian City State.
7. Re-read Pico della Mirandola’s Oration on the Dignity of Man. What Renaissance characteristics are represented by this document?
8. What are the major similarities and differences between the Italian and Northern Renaissance?
9. What was the role of women in Renaissance society? What types of occupations were acceptable for middle class women? Upper class women? How would you describe the “ideal” Renaissance woman?
10. Who painted the School of Athens? What are some if its most significant features?
11. Do some research on Pieter Bruegel the Elder’s etching The Fair on St. George’s Day. It is also important that you do a little research on the leisure practices from the mid-fifteenth to the mid-seventeenth centuries. You should have some general ideas about how they conducted leisure time, you do not need to give me a list of things they use to do.
Study Guide: Ch. 10 – The Renaissance
Instructions: You are not required to turn this in. This is simply a list of questions you should be able to answer prior to the test. Many of these have already been answered in your reading questions.
1. What were the general characteristics of the Renaissance?
2. What is Humanism and what role did it play in the Renaissance?
3. How did the Renaissance and Humanism impact art? Architecture? Literature?
4. What was the relationship between Humanism and religion? Why?
5. Who were some of the important classical figures? Why were they important?
6. Describe the social and political make-up of the Italian City State.
7. Re-read Pico della Mirandola’s Oration on the Dignity of Man. What Renaissance characteristics are represented by this document?
8. What are the major similarities and differences between the Italian and Northern Renaissance?
9. What was the role of women in Renaissance society? What types of occupations were acceptable for middle class women? Upper class women? How would you describe the “ideal” Renaissance woman?
10. Who painted the School of Athens? What are some if its most significant features?
11. Do some research on Pieter Bruegel the Elder’s etching The Fair on St. George’s Day. It is also important that you do a little research on the leisure practices from the mid-fifteenth to the mid-seventeenth centuries. You should have some general ideas about how they conducted leisure time, you do not need to give me a list of things they use to do.