CSTU 101-Quiz 6-Chp 17 with 100% correct answers

CSTU 101-Quiz 6-Chp 17Renaissance - correct answer -period of cultural "rebirth" (portal into modern age) -it was a great historical problem ~A historical problem is a set of circumstances so complex that it defies easy explanation. Textbook definition of *Renaissance* - correct answer The Renaissance was a great cultural movement that brought about a period of scientific revolution and artistic transformation at the dawn of modern European history. "Scientific Revolution" - correct answer ~Scientific revolution points us to the notion of rationalism, the faculty of human reasoning ~This is the belief that the human mind, reason, the critical faculty can comprehend the world, can figure out the mysteries of the universe. "artistic transformation" or "humanism" - correct answer They believe deeply in the dignity and worth of human beings and human existence, and they are setting that up as the standard for all that they do in culture the point of Renaissance - correct answer The Renaissance is the rebirth of classical values and classical ideas having to do with ancient Greek and Roman culture. -Michelangelo and da Vinci-trying to be Christians and humanists/rationalists at same time these Renaissance humanists came up with terms we are using - correct answer "Middle Ages", "modern" "medieval" ,"classical" "Gothic" (architecture) -view the middle ages as an unfortunate period of time between the two glorious periods-classical age of Greeks and Romans and their age-modern age Leonardo da Vinci is called a Renaissance man - correct answer What we mean by that is somebody who is deeply curious about the world and all aspects of knowledge, art and science alike ~ if he could see the skeletal structure and the muscular structure of the body, he would able to draw and paint the body more realistically as an artist. *The Renaissance is divided into three periods* - correct answer 1) early () 2) middle 3) and late () Early period - correct answer most important form of art that's driving the Renaissance at this point is architecture. High Renaissance (middle) - correct answer - is a 50-year period from 1475 to 1525. ~This is the period of greatest achievement in the Renaissance, ~the period of Michelangelo, of Leonardo da Vinci, of Raphael, the greatest masters of the Renaissance. -da Vinci's "Mona Lisa" -Michelangelo greatest paintings in Sistine Chapel in the Vatican. (walls of the ceiling)-greatest work of art in the entire history of West Humanism - correct answer -begins with introspection: look inward-self-examination, self-knowledge, self-discovery -ends with projection: project in on the world of what you find inside. ~You figure out who you are, you figure out what man is, and then you measure the world by that (sounds like Greeks, Renaissance, and modern humanism) Literary example: Pico della Mirandola. - correct answer humanist writer-wrote essay on "Oration on the Dignity of Man." ~Mirandola is going to put a lot of words in the mouth of God that don't belong there. ~He is offering a kind of humanistic commentary on the opening chapters of Genesis, -God is saying to Adam: Take this free will and see how far you can run with it. (reason why I created you is to see what you can make of yourself)