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What is a capella singing? |
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Who was the first important composer to use music expressively so that the sounds matched the words of the text, thereby moving away from the abstract church style of the Middle Ages? He also organized music in the modern way, using major and minor scales with their related harmonies. |
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Who is considered the quintessential "Renaissance man"? |
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What does the word "renaissance" mean? |
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Who is credited with inventing the system of linear perspective? |
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Name the Dominican monk and iconoclast who gave fire-and-brimstone sermons in which he denounced Florence's leaders and the city's infatuation with the arts. |
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Name the devout Florentine painter who burned many of his secular paintings while under the sway of the crusading monk. |
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Who founded the Vatican Library, an institution virtually unrivaled for its holdings of manuscripts and books? |
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Who taught that love is a divine gift that binds all human beings together? He saw love as expressing itself in human experience by the desire for and appreciation of beauty. |
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Who proposed that all knowledge shares basic common truths and that Christians could benefit from studying non-Western, non-Christian writings? |
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Who was the greatest sculptor in the early Renaissance? |
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Who created the dome for Florence's cathedral? |
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Who won the competition to create sculpture-decorated doors for the Florentine Baptistery? |
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Who painted The Holy Trinity, which has a remarkable illusion of depth, using the latest techniques? It is considered the first successful depiction in painting of the new concept of Renaissance space. |
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What is a memento mori? |
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Who developed a pyramidal composition for paintings that became the standard in the High Renaissance? |
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Name the two most famous paintings of Botticelli. |
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Who applied textual criticism to expose the Donation of Constantine as a forgery? |
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What architect and theoretician compared the creativity of master painters to God's, a notion that would have been considered blasphemous by medieval thinkers? |
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Name the early Renaissance Italian painter who allegorized pagan myths, giving them a Christian slant. This justified the painting of female nudes in a still very Christian world. |
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