Italian Renaissance

4. The person or group of people paying for the image
5. A cosmological model in which the Sun is assumed to lie at or near a central point
7. Was a sculptor, painter and architect widely considered to be one of the greatest artists of the Renaissance
9. A Venetian merchant believed to have journeyed across Asia at the height of the Mongol Empire
10. An intellectual movement that sought to mimic the literature, rhetoric, art, and philosophy of the ancient world, specifically ancient Rome
11. A prestigious Italian banking family and political dynasty who held great power in Florence from the 15th to the 18th century
12. An emphasis on living well in this world and understanding better the activities of this world

1. A technique which allows for the creation of a realistic illusion of depth and perspective in a work of art
2. An intellectual movement of the 15th century when there was a new interest in the classical world and studies which focussed less on religion and more on what it is to be human
3. The one that invented the printing press
6. One of cultural revival and renewed interest in classical antiquity after the centuries during what Renaissance humanists labelled as the "Dark Ages"
8. A network of mostly land but also sea trading routes