AP Euro History: Chapter 12.3-12.4 Quiz

The building above, the Pazzi Chapel, best demonstrates the Renaissance architectural interest

Classical principles of order and symmetry

Which of the following best identifies the term "race" in the Renaissance?

Grouping of people based on ethic, national or religious factors

All of the following are characteristics of Renaissance art EXCEPT:

Hierarchial scaling

What general attitudes did Europeans have towards Africa?

Africa completely unknown to Europeans at this time- thus there were no attitudes present

On the Iberian Peninsula, what was the social positive of African slaves?

African slaves intermingled with the people they lived among and sometimes intermarried with them

Florence was to the Italian Renaissance what

Athens was to classical Greek culture

How did the hierarchy of wealth differ from the hierarchy of orders?

The hierarchy of wealth allowed more changes than the hierarchy of status as families' wealth increased and decreased

"only men of noble birth can obtain perfection. The poor, who work with their hands and have not time to cultivate their minds, are incapable of it." -Lorenzo the Magnificent, 1488 What does the fifteenth-century commentary shown

The intellectual impact of the Renaissance was largely reserved for the elites of the day

Which of the following best characterizes the intersection of the hierarchies of wealth and orders in the Renaissance?

The nobility retained its status by taking in and integrating the new social elite of wealth

which of the following best describes the overall influence the Renaissance had on the people of Europe centuries?

it was the preserve of the wealthy upper classes that constituted a small percentage of the population

Why was women's work less valued and less compensated than men's work?

it was understood that a women was either married or to be married and, therefore, not responsible for supporting a family.

All of the following were common subjects of Italian Renaissance works of art EXCEPT:

peasant life

Renaissance art departed from previous medieval styles by:

portraying the individual as an important subject

to the artists of the 16th century, beauty was often portrayed by depicting

realistic human movement and emotion

In terms of gender relations, Renaissance humanist argued that:

women's sphere of activity was private and domestic