1. What is the translation for Renaissance?

2. What was the names and dates of the 3 periods within the Renaissance?

3. Where was the birthplace of the Renaissance?

4. What is a symbol?

5. Explain why artists may have chosen to incorporate symbols in their artwork during the Renaissance? 

6. Why would the color red be used in a depiction of Adam and Eve? 

7. Choose your favorite color....Now explain why an artist would use that color in his or her painting during the Renaissance period. 

8. In the painting Ambassadors by Hans Holbein, what is the theme of the painting? What are the symbols and how do they incorporate into the theme?