Humanist art | Humanist education | Civic humanism | Random Humanism facts |
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Columns, arches, symmetry, domes
Name 2 ways elements of Classical Greek and Roman architecture that Renaissance builders admired.
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True
True or false: many humanists ran their own schools.
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government.
Renaissance humanists were interested in what classical authors had written about good forms of ________________.
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Islam or Muslim
Apart from Ancient Greece and Rome, humanists drew inspired from this civilization.
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Geometric
Renaissance artist used ____________ perspective.
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beauty
During the Renaissance, students studied the aesthetics (the philosophy of ________).
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consensus.
When members of a group work together to make a unanimous decision, it is called a ____________.
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The Catholic Church
Before the Renaissance, who was the keeper of knowledge and texts in Europe?
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Goliath
Michelangelo's statue of David portrayed the warrior right before his fight with _____________.
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"Educating the whole child"
The humanist belief that training young people's characters and bodies as well as their minds is sometimes referred to as:
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Citizen
The word "civic" comes from the Latin word "civis", which means "_____________".
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legal
The Romans created a ________ code that remained in use in Europe until the end of the 1700s.
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symbols
Although humanist art was still religious in subject, it contained far fewer religious ___________ such as halos, angels, and members of the clergy.
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Philosophers
__________________ taught people how they could improve themselves and their society through their own efforts. (HINT: not humanists)
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Aristotle
Who was the ancient Greek thinker who suggested that without an education, a human being is useless?
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vernacular
Humanists emphasized the importance of translating literature from classic languages into the ________________.
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Sculptors
_____________ in the Middle Ages were seen as craftspeople rather than artists; by the Renaissance, they were regarded as celebrities.
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Reading, writing, and 'rithmetic
Name the "3 R's" that were studied in school during the Middle Ages.
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Cicero
This Roman author, whose name begins with a C, influenced civic humanists with his ideas that public service is the duty of everyone in a society.
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1) She was educated
2) She wanted to translate the Bible into French 3) She criticized the Catholic Church's corruption
Name two reasons why Marguerite de Navarre was an unusual woman for her time.
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