Renaissance

3. Funded artists of the Renaissance
5. ruled Florence during the Renaissance
8. Depicts Plato with his star student Aristotle
12. A play that inspired Disney's The Lion King
13. A Flemish artist who painted detailed colorful portraits and images of religious subjects
14. Rebirth in French
15. A political treatise that justified immoral action in the pursuit of political power.

1. A philosophical movement inspired by Rome and Creece.
2. A humanist painting depicting Lisa del Giocondo
4. produces an impression of depth and distance.
6. One of the first writers to publish a major work in Italian
7. The Bard or "poet" who is considered by many to be the greatest English writer of all time
9. Depicted the lives of peasants with remarkable realism
10. improved on Chinese technology of woodblock printing
11. The most influential city during the Renaissance