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_______ created the lifelike statue of ’St. Mark’ in Venice.

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  1. Michaelangelo

  2. Donatello

  3. Leonardo Da Vinci

  4. Raphael

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Correct Option: B
Explanation:

The sculptors of middle ages carved faces, hands, and draperies but the form of the human body could not be detected under the draperies.

The Renaissance sculptors studied the human body and knew how the muscles and joints worked so that they could make their figure more lifelike. 
The statue of St. George in Florence, the statues of St. Mark in Venice and the Group of Young Angles reveals the artistic skills of the sculptor of Donatello.

Who wrote the ''Divine Comedy''?

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  1. Dante Alighieri

  2. Francesco Petrarch

  3. Giovanni Boccaccio

  4. Niccolo Machiavelli

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Correct Option: A
Explanation:

The Divine Comedy is an Italian long narrative poem by Dante Alighieri.  He began the work in 1308 and completed in 1320, a year before his death in 1321. It is widely considered to be one of the greatest works of world literature.

______ was the Father of modern sciences and medieval exponent of observation and experiment.

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  1. Copernicus

  2. Galileo

  3. Friar Roger Bacon

  4. William Harvey

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Correct Option: B
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Galileo Galilei was the Father of modern sciences and medieval exponent of observation and experiment. He was the first scientist to record accurate data through his telescope. Galileo supported the theory by Copernicus, that sun is the centre not earth of our Universe. 

Whose paintings depicted scenes from robust peasant lives?

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  1. Michaelangelo

  2. Peter Brueghel, the Elder

  3. Peter Brueghel, the Younger

  4. Titian

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Correct Option: B
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Peter Brueghel, the Elder, also known by the name Peasant Bruegel was a Dutch Painter known for carving witty scenes from the peasant lives. He would often visit their social gathering, dressed as one of them and through his paintings he gave an idea about their lives.

Who wrote the book 'The Civilisation of the Renaissance in Italy'?

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  1. Thomas Paine

  2. Rousseau

  3. Jacob Burckhardt

  4. Voltaire

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Correct Option: C
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"The Civilization of the Renaissance in Italy" tells about the  Italian Renaissance, it was written by Swiss historian Jacob Burckhardt is 1860. The book is divided into six parts.

_______ wrote ''Seven Books on the Structure of the Human Body''.

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  1. Andreas Vesalius

  2. Gilbert

  3. Francis Willis

  4. Peter Lowe

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Correct Option: A
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Seven books of the Structure of the Human Body was written by Andreas Vesalius. The book was published in 1543. It was a collection of speeches by Vesalius in Padua. This book is an advance description of human anatomy.  

Vasco da Gama discovered the sea route to India in the year _____.

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  1. 1498

  2. 1492

  3. 1490

  4. 1453

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Correct Option: A
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Vasco da Gama was a Portuguese explorer who reached India by sea on May 17, 1498. His fleet reached Kappakadavu near Calicut in the current Indian state of Kerala.

Who laid the foundation of Mathematical astronomy?

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  1. Kepler

  2. Galileo

  3. Copernicus

  4. Ptolemy

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Correct Option: A
Explanation:
Johannes Kepler was a German astronomer who discovered three laws of planetary motions as:
  1. the planets move in an elliptical orbit with the sun in the centre,
  2.  the time necessary to traverse an arc of a planetary orbit is proportional to the area of the sector between the central body and that arc,
  3. there is an exact relationship between the squares of the planets’ periodic times and the cubes of the radii of their orbits.
Due to this, he is regarded as the founder of Mathematical astronomy. These discoveries enlightened the works of Newton and Copernicus.

Humanism started in ______.

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  1. France

  2. Italy

  3. Germany

  4. England

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Correct Option: B
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A shift from God centred literary activities to human centred literary trends is known as humanism. Petrarch is supposed to have been the original thinker who preached humanism. Humanism spread from Italy to other parts of Europe. 

The emphasis on individual uniqueness and worth during the European Renaissance is known as _________.
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  1. Isolationism

  2. Manorialism

  3. Nationalism

  4. Humanism

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Correct Option: D
Explanation:

The fine arts, literature and history in the Medieval period were centered on religious ideology. The texts were invariably written in Greek and Latin as these languages were considered elite and scholarly. By the dawn of the 13th century, Latin and Greek gave way to regional languages like English, Spanish, and French. The writers of this period adopted the life of the common man as the central theme of their works. The literature of this period was no longer confined to religion and philosophy but gave way to themes that depicted diverse aspects of human life. Similar changes occurred in other art forms like painting and sculpture. This vision, primarily concerned with the various aspects of human life, is known as humanism.