Renaissance courtiers were:
people who served a prince in multiple political and administrative ways.
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people who worked for the Venetian Republic
slaves of the doge of Venice.
military leaders whose conquests spread the Renaissance to northern Europe
people who served in the Vatican as papal pages.
Civic humanists:
advocated active service to the city-state.
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opposed the use of public funds to patronize artists.
supported a theocracy in Florence.
advocated a life of scholarly contemplation.
opposed the republican form of government.
Northern humanists differed from their Italian predecessors:
in their focus on the textual reexamination of the Bible and the writings of the early Church Fathers.
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by concentrating on the ancient Greek authors.
in that they had no need for rich patrons to support their work.
by refusing to use the vernacular in their work.
in their interest in medieval history.
Mannerist art was characterized by:
distorted human figures and unnatural lighting effects.
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formality, balance, restraint.
emphasis on decorative design.
extravagant use of bright colors and abstract design.
simplicity in human figures similar to Gothic sculpture.
According to Jacob Burckhardt, the Renaissance represented:
a distinct break from the Middle Ages.
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the greatest period of economic recovery in the history of Western civilization.
a period of moral decline.
an era of tremendous graft and corruption in Italian government.
none of these choices are correct.
Pico della Mirandola’s Oration on the Dignity of Man stated that:
God gave humans free will so that they could choose to be earthly or spiritual creatures.
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humans were fallen creatures, but regain their place by following God’s will.
human beings were nothing more than undifferentiated animals.
only through prayer and good works could man achieve his full potential.
humans were divine and destined to spiritual life.
Liberal education in the Renaissance included all of the following EXCEPT:
the study of military theory.
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a stress on physical education.
the mastery of Greek and Latin.
the study of music.
the ability to write poetry and appreciate good works of art.
Thomas More’s Utopia:
presented a revolutionary social order based on communal living and property.
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illustrated the northern humanists’ break with the Catholic church.
represented the high point of northern humanist thought.
led to his execution at the hands of Henry VIII.
stressed that the end always justified the means in politics.
The Prince argued that:
the prince’s highest obligation was the preservation of his state.
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a prince must always behave in a moral fashion.
the prince’s highest obligation was to God.
the prince must give one-half of his wealth to the poor and to the Church.
the prince’s highest duty was the accumulation of personal weatlh.
Italian Renaissance art can be most appropriately described as:
NeoClassicism in which the traditional characteristics of harmony and symmetry were valued.
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a revolt against the classical style and the advancement of a new artistic standard based on humanism.
characterized by the spectacular and the deliberately nonsymmetrical.
romantic idealism predicated upon notions of secular fantasy.
the triumph of symbolism.
Lorenzo Valla gained fame for:
proving the Donation of Constantine a fraud.
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becoming ruler of the Renaissance city of Florence.
his inventions.
challenging the authority of Voltaire.
helping to unify Italy.
Construed as an intellectual threat to the Church, humanism:
maintained that the true source of authority within the Church was Scripture.
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identified with the “New Science,” which the Church opposed.
argued that the episcopal order of the Roman church should be altered.
condemned the Church for not addressing the needs of the poor.
challenged the papal supremacy.
[Quiz originally from here]