The Northern Renaissance | History | Quizalize & Oak National Academy

Starter quiz

______ is the study of the human body and how it functions.
- geology
- astronomy
- anatomy ✓
- rhetoric
Da Vinci was an inventor of many ideas and machines but his main obsession was...
- inventing the steam engine
- human flight ✓
- the movement of the Sun, the Earth and other planets
Match the following terms to complete each sentence
- Ancient Greeks and Romans
  
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  produced theories about the natural world ✓
- Early Renaissance humanists
  
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  rediscovered classical knowledge ✓
- The printing press
  
  ⇔
  
  quickly spread rediscovered knowledge across Europe ✓
- A 17th century 'Scientific Revolution'
  
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  built on classical knowledge. ✓
Starting with the earliest, place these events in chronological order.
- 1
  
  ⇔
  
  Ptolemy's ideas about the orbits of celestial bodies dominated in Europe.
- 2
  
  ⇔
  
  Copernicus revived Aristarchus' idea that the Earth orbits around the Sun.
- 3
  
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  Galileo worked to improve upon Copernicus' work.
- 4
  
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  Galileo was put on trial by the Catholic Church.
Vesalius's knowledge of anatomy was so thorough because he performed dissections...
- 'himself' ✓
Fugitive sheets were pages from books about which science?
- Astronomy
- Geology
- Rhetoric
- Anatomy ✓

Exit quiz

What sort of paintings did Bruegel paint?
- Highly detailed portraits
- Scenes of everyday life ✓
- Religious scenes
The Arnolfini Portrait was painted by Jan van...
- 'Eyck' ✓
Starting with the earliest, put these events in chronological order.
- 1
  
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  Humanists like Petrarch rediscover classical knowledge.
- 2
  
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  Van Eyck paints the Arnolfini Portrait.
- 3
  
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  Da Vinci paints the Mona Lisa.
- 4
  
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  Bruegel paints the Hunters in the Snow.
Why did northern European artists stop painting religious subjects to focus on scenes of everyday life?
- reformers rejected the ideas of the Catholic Church ✓
- they could no longer charge high prices for religious art
- the Catholic Church banned them from painting religious subjects
- scenes of everyday life were easier to paint
Who painted a much-copied portrait of Henry VIII?
- Hans Holbein ✓
- Jan van Eyck
- Peter Bruegel
- Leonardo da Vinci
Henry VIII had his portrait copied in order to project a message about his power and...
- piety
- status ✓
- physical strength

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Key learning points

Northern Renaissance art looked different.
Painters like Holbein developed a different style.
Some English art belonged to the northern Renaissance.
English monarchs became patrons of the Northern Renaissance.
The Northern Renaissance developed later.

Common misconception

Pupils may think that we can learn little from imagery that has been produced for the purposes of propaganda.

Explain to pupils that we can learn a lot from such imagery as it is a window into the minds of those who had it produced, and helps us to understand some of their concerns and motivations.

Keywords

Northern renaissance - the Renaissance that occurred north of the Alps is called the Northern Renaissance
Reformer - someone who wants to change something is known as a reformer
Portrait - a portrait is a painting of a person