Renaissance Figures Quiz
Instructions: How well do you remember the brilliant minds of the Renaissance?
- 1.
Which Renaissance artist painted the ceiling of the Sistine Chapel?
ARaphaelBLeonardo da VinciCDonatelloDMichelangelo - 2.
Who painted the Mona Lisa?
ALeonardo da VinciBMichelangeloCRaphaelDSandro Botticelli - 3.
Which Renaissance figure proposed that the Earth revolves around the Sun?
AGalileo GalileiBTycho BraheCNicolaus CopernicusDJohannes Kepler - 4.
Who wrote 'The Prince,' a famous treatise on political power?
ABaldassare CastiglioneBErasmusCThomas MoreDNiccolò Machiavelli - 5.
Which wealthy Florentine family were the greatest patrons of Renaissance art?
AMedici familyBEste familyCBorgia familyDSforza family - 6.
Which inventor developed the printing press with movable type around 1440?
ALeonardo da VinciBWilliam CaxtonCJohannes GutenbergDAldus Manutius - 7.
Who sculpted the famous bronze doors of the Florence Baptistery, called the 'Gates of Paradise'?
ABenvenuto CelliniBMichelangeloCDonatelloDLorenzo Ghiberti - 8.
Which Renaissance playwright wrote 'Romeo and Juliet' and 'Hamlet'?
AChristopher MarloweBBen JonsonCWilliam ShakespeareDEdmund Spenser - 9.
Who was the Renaissance astronomer put on trial by the Inquisition for supporting heliocentrism?
AGiordano BrunoBGalileo GalileiCNicolaus CopernicusDJohannes Kepler - 10.
Which Renaissance artist painted 'The School of Athens'?
ALeonardo da VinciBTitianCRaphaelDMichelangelo - 11.
Who wrote 'Utopia,' describing an ideal society on a fictional island?
ANiccolò MachiavelliBErasmusCFrancis BaconDThomas More - 12.
Which Renaissance artist created the sculpture 'David' standing over 14 feet tall?
AGhibertiBDonatelloCMichelangeloDBernini - 13.
Which Dutch humanist scholar was known as the 'Prince of the Humanists'?
AThomas MoreBGiovanni BoccaccioCDesiderius ErasmusDPetrarch - 14.
Who is considered the 'Father of the Renaissance' and wrote poetry in Italian rather than Latin?
APetrarchBGiovanni BoccaccioCLorenzo de MediciDDante Alighieri - 15.
Which Renaissance painter was known for his vivid use of color and painted 'Venus of Urbino'?
ARaphaelBTitianCTintorettoDVeronese