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Humanities: Ch. 3 & 4

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Unlike in Renaissance Italy, patronage of artists in the northern cities came from what source?
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Corruption of the church; The merchant class; political gains
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Why did Antwerp overtake Bruges in importance by the middle of the fifteenth century?
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Bruges harbor became blocked by silt
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How could the message of Hieronymus Bosch's Garden of Earthly Delights be best interpreted?
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To be a conversation piece
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Matthias Grünewald's Isenheim Altarpiece underscores what northern European preoccupation?
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Death
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What trend in German culture did artist Albrecht Dürer represent?
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humanism
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What is a particularly distinctive feature of Robert Campin's Mérode Altarpiece?
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Its setting the Annunciation in an ordinary, middle-class Flemish home
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Heinrich Krämer's Malleus Maleficarum (The Hammer of Witches) set forth what attitude about women?
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They were cunning and deceitful
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In the Ghent Altarpiece, Jan van Eyck's depiction of Adam and Eve holds what distinction?
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The largest painted nudes since antiquity
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What is an advantage of a polyptych over a diptych or a triptych?
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A polyptych allowed for different arrangements
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What was the irony about the monk and humanist scholar, Desiderius Erasmus?
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He opposed the Church's excesses yet loved beauty and art
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Why does Erasmus attack Church officials in his In Praise of Folly?
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For selling pardons and indulgences
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What alternative theory to the Church's doctrine of "salvation through good deeds" was created by Martin Luther?
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Faith
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According to Luther, why could faithful people be certain of their salvation?
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Christ took their sins
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What was at the heart of Luther's outrage at the Church's "salvation for sale"?
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Salvation only for people with money; Class inequity and injustice
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Why was Luther's translation of the New Testament into vernacular German so significant?
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allowed Germans to interpret the bible in their own way; People no longer had to depend on the Church for biblical interpretation
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What best explains Calvin's concept of "predestination"?
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Salvation is predestined; God ordains salvation for certain people at birth
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Why did Luther claim that the Jews were a race rejected by God?
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Luther accused Jews of denying Christ and crucifying him
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What was the first major work Gutenberg published using his printing press?
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The Forty-Two Line Bible
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Why was Thomas Müntzer so critical of Martin Luther during the Peasant War?
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Luther refused to support the peasants' rebellion
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Why did many Northern artists turn to painting portraits and landscapes?
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The growing middle class could afford to have portraits painted