Starter quiz
- Renaissance artists were inspired by the classical worlds of...
- Greece and Mespotamia
- Egypt and Greece
- Rome and Egypt
- Greece and Rome ✓
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- Match the painting technique to its description.
- sfumato⇔a soft change between colours ✓
- proportion⇔ensuring objects are correctly sized ✓
- chiaroscuro⇔using a great of light and dark tones ✓
- Da Vinci's painting of ______ del Giocondo uses the technique known as sfumato.
- 'Lisa' ✓
- How did the use of new mathematical principles help da Vinci in his paintings?
- They helped him to make his paintings more realistic. ✓
- They helped him to calculate the size of his canvases.
- They helped him to calculate how much paint he would need.
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- Before it was rebuilt, St Peter's ______ was 1200 years old.
- 'Basilica' ✓
- Which of these ancient buildings did the new St Peter's take inspiration from?
- The Pantheon ✓
- The pyramids of Giza
- The Ishtar Gate
- The Parthenon ✓
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Exit quiz
- The study of the human body and how it functions is called...
- 'anatomy' ✓
- Leonardo da Vinci was especially interested in human...
- 'flight' ✓
- Starting with the earliest, place these events in chronological order.
- 1⇔Ancient Greeks and Romans produced theories about the natural world.
- 2⇔Early Renaissance humanists rediscovered classical knowledge.
- 3⇔The printing press spread rediscovered knowledge across Europe.
- 4⇔A 'Scientific Revolution' built on classical knowledge.
- Which of these statements best describes the controversy surrounding Copernicus' work.
- Copernicus' work directly attacked the teachings of the Catholic Church.
- Galileo's attempts to improve Copernicus' work led to his trial by the Church. ✓
- Copernicus' argued that the Sun and other celestial bodies orbited the Earth.
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- Why were Vesalius' dissections different to many others that had been performed up to that point?
- Vesalius conducted numerous dissections of live animals (vivisections)
- Vesalius did not conduct the dissections himself, and just described the process
- Vesalius conducted the dissections himself, rather than a barber-surgeon ✓
- Vesalius' dissections were allowed by the Church
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- Individual pages of anatomy books were known as ______ sheets.
- 'fugitive' ✓
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Key learning points
- Inventors like da Vinci developed new scientific ideas.
- Da Vinci's notebooks contain examples of his new inventions.
- People began to study anatomy more scientifically.
- Some developments were made in the understanding of the human body.
Common misconception
Pupils might think that dissection was banned by the medieval Catholic Church.
Explain to pupils that, while dissection was not banned, there was still a taboo around handling dead bodies which limited the number of dissections that took place during the medieval period.
Keywords
Church - the Church refers to the institution of the Christian religion
Anatomy - the scientific study of the body and how it functions is called anatomy
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