Starter quiz
- Who controlled most book copying before the Renaissance?
- Private copyists
- The Church ✓
- Governments
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- The printing press made book copying...
- 'faster' ✓
- Holbein's portrait of Erasmus compared his work to the tasks of Hercules because...
- Erasmus was a heroic figure.
- Erasmus was a famous warrior
- Erasmus worked hard studying classical texts. ✓
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- During the Renaissance, the number of universities...
- 'grew' ✓
- During the Renaissance, humanist ideas were spread in...
- churches
- monasteries
- universities ✓
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- Match the factor to the role it played in spreading humanism during the Renaissance.
- universities⇔became centres of humanist teaching and learning ✓
- the printing press⇔allowed the books that humanists studied to be copied quickly ✓
- scholars⇔travelled between universities, spreading humanist ideas ✓
Exit quiz
- Renaissance artists were inspired by the ______ world.
- 'classical' ✓
- Which Renaissance painting technique focused on a soft change between colours?
- chiaroscuro
- sfumato ✓
- perspective
- proportion
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- Renaissance painters used a range of dark to light tones in their paintings, a technique known as...
- 'chiaroscuro' ✓
- Da Vinci used ______ principles to make his paintings more realistic.
- 'mathematical' ✓
- Roughly how old was the old basilica of St Peter's before it was rebuilt?
- 1200 years old ✓
- 120 years old
- 12000 years old
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- The new St Peter's took inspiration from classical buildings like the Pantheon and the...
- 'Parthenon' ✓
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Key learning points
- New artistic techniques were developed during the Renaissance.
- Da Vinci's artworks like the Mona Lisa display these techniques.
- Painters studied one another's work to improve their craft.
- St Peter's Basilica in Rome is a classic example of Renaissance architecture.
- Renaissance architecture drew on classical models.
Common misconception
Pupils might think that because Renaissance architects used mathematical calculations to design their buildings, these were without subsequent problems or issues.
Explain to pupils that these architects often made miscalculations and many subsequent improvement works were needed to ensure buildings like St Peter's did not fall down.
Keywords
Sfumato - the artistic technique of allowing tones or colours to gradually shade into one another is called sfumato
Chiaroscuro - the use of light and shade in drawing and painting is called chiaroscuro
Basilica - a basilica is a church considered highly important by the Catholic Church
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