Context: At the same time the order found itself face to face with the Renaissance. It struggled against pagan tendencies in Renaissance humanism, in Italy through Dominici and Savonarola, in Germany through the theologians of Cologne but it also furnished humanism with such advanced writers as Francesco Colonna (probably the writer of the Hypnerotomachia Poliphili) and Matteo Bandello. Many Dominicans took part in the artistic activity of the age, the most prominent being Fra Angelico and Fra Bartolomeo.

Question: What historical period gave the Dominican Order a challenge?
Answer: the Renaissance

Question: What was it about the Renaissance that gave the Dominican Order problems?
Answer: pagan tendencies

Question: The theologians of what German city gave the Dominican Order resistance?
Answer: Cologne

Question: What writer fused humanism with the Dominican Order teachings?
Answer: Matteo Bandello

Question: What Dominican friar celebrated the arts of the Renaissance age?
Answer: Fra Angelico and Fra Bartolomeo

Question: What did the order not find itself faced with?
Answer: Unanswerable

Question: What did the order embrace during the the Renaissance?
Answer: Unanswerable

Question: What theologians of what English city gave the Dominican Order resistance?
Answer: Unanswerable

Question: What did many Benedictines take part in?
Answer: Unanswerable

Question: Which friars were celebrated in the science of the Renaissance age?
Answer: Unanswerable