Test 3 Review Questions and Answers-
CSTU 101
1400-1600 A.D. - Answer-When was the Italian Renaissance?
To return to the principles underlying ancient Greece - Answer-What was the goal of the Italian
Renaissance?
Rationalism and Humanism - Answer-What two philosophies dominated the Italian Renaissance?
Merchant Princes - Answer-Who financed the travel and commerce of the Italian Renaissance period?
Ottoman Empire - Answer-Trade with what empire allowed Italy to flourish during the Renaissance
period?
Textiles - Answer-What industry did Florence specialize in?
Trade - Answer-What industry did Venice specialize in?
, Patronage System - Answer-What is the flexible system by which wealthy families and individuals
employed artists?
Civic Humanism - Answer-What term denotes a belief that citizens were required to balance their self-
interest against their obligations to the common good?
The Medici - Answer-What was the most prominent Renaissance Florentine family of merchant princes?
Patriarch Cosimo Medici - Answer-Who received permission from the pope to mine a special mineral for
use in dye?
Lorenzo de' Medici - Answer-Under what reign did the renaissance in Florence reach its height?
The Magnificient - Answer-What name was Lorenzo de' Medici called?
Plato - Answer-Lorenzo de' Medici claimed, "Without knowing _ , one could not be a good citizen or a
good Christian"
Lorenzo de' Medici - Answer-What ruler was a patron of Leonardo da Vinci and Michelangelo?
21 - Answer-At what age did Lorenzo de' Medici become a leader?
Medici - Answer-What name is now nearly synonymous with power and political infighting?
Lorenzo Ghiberti - Answer-Who was the winner in the competition to craft the doors to the Cathedral
Baptistery?
CSTU 101
1400-1600 A.D. - Answer-When was the Italian Renaissance?
To return to the principles underlying ancient Greece - Answer-What was the goal of the Italian
Renaissance?
Rationalism and Humanism - Answer-What two philosophies dominated the Italian Renaissance?
Merchant Princes - Answer-Who financed the travel and commerce of the Italian Renaissance period?
Ottoman Empire - Answer-Trade with what empire allowed Italy to flourish during the Renaissance
period?
Textiles - Answer-What industry did Florence specialize in?
Trade - Answer-What industry did Venice specialize in?
, Patronage System - Answer-What is the flexible system by which wealthy families and individuals
employed artists?
Civic Humanism - Answer-What term denotes a belief that citizens were required to balance their self-
interest against their obligations to the common good?
The Medici - Answer-What was the most prominent Renaissance Florentine family of merchant princes?
Patriarch Cosimo Medici - Answer-Who received permission from the pope to mine a special mineral for
use in dye?
Lorenzo de' Medici - Answer-Under what reign did the renaissance in Florence reach its height?
The Magnificient - Answer-What name was Lorenzo de' Medici called?
Plato - Answer-Lorenzo de' Medici claimed, "Without knowing _ , one could not be a good citizen or a
good Christian"
Lorenzo de' Medici - Answer-What ruler was a patron of Leonardo da Vinci and Michelangelo?
21 - Answer-At what age did Lorenzo de' Medici become a leader?
Medici - Answer-What name is now nearly synonymous with power and political infighting?
Lorenzo Ghiberti - Answer-Who was the winner in the competition to craft the doors to the Cathedral
Baptistery?
