Play The Renaissance Trivia Online

1. 01The word Renaissance literally means what?
2. 02The Renaissance is generally said to have begun in which Italian city?
3. 03Which Renaissance artist painted the ceiling of the Sistine Chapel?
4. 04Which Renaissance master sculpted the giant marble David that now stands in Florence's Accademia?
5. 05Michelangelo painted the ceiling of which Vatican chapel?
6. 06Which Leonardo da Vinci mural shows Jesus sharing a final meal with his disciples?
7. 07Which wealthy banking family famously bankrolled Renaissance art in Florence?
8. 08Who engineered the huge brick dome that crowns Florence Cathedral?
9. 09Which Botticelli painting shows the goddess of love arriving on a giant seashell?
10. 10Who wrote The Prince, the famously ruthless Renaissance guide to political power?
11. 11Around what year did Johannes Gutenberg introduce his movable-type printing press?
12. 12Copernicus shocked scholars of his day by placing what at the center of the universe?
13. 13Leonardo da Vinci filled thousands of notebook pages using what unusual writing style?
14. 14Which Raphael fresco imagines Plato, Aristotle, and other great thinkers gathered together?
15. 15Andreas Vesalius transformed which field with his detailed 1543 book on the human body?
16. 16Which Nuremberg artist became famous across Europe for masterful engravings like Melencolia I?
17. 17Jan van Eyck painted which famous double portrait of a richly dressed couple?
18. 18Which Italian poet and scholar is often called the Father of Humanism?

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