Renaissance
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- 2. was an Italian painter and architect of the High Renaissance.
- 5. painter, printmaker, and writer generally regarded as the greatest German Renaissance artist.
- 8. a Renaissance cultural movement which turned away from medieval scholasticism and revived interest in ancient Greek and Roman thought.
- 11. the art of drawing solid objects on a two-dimensional surface so as to give the right impression of their height, width, depth, and position in relation to each other when viewed from a particular point.
- 12. a German inventor and craftsman who created the printing press
- 13. an Italian Renaissance political philosopher and statesman, secretary of the Florentine republic
- 15. was an Italian sculptor, painter, architect, and poet of the High Renaissance.
- 16. considered a Renaissance humanist and a full expression of Renaissance culture.
- 18. a city in central Italy on the Arno River. It was the capital of the grand duchy of Tuscany and the center of the Italian Renaissance from the 14th to 16th centuries.
- 19. a person who gives financial or other support to a person, organization, cause, or activity.
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- 1. an Italian courtier, diplomat, soldier and a prominent Renaissance author.
- 3. an imaginary community or society that possesses highly desirable or near-perfect qualities for its members.
- 4. a broad field of study that examines human culture, ideas, and experiences.
- 6. the language or dialect spoken by the ordinary people in a particular country or region.
- 7. father of humanism.
- 9. a prominent figure in the English Renaissance and a well-known humanist.
- 10. an Italian polymath of the High Renaissance who was active as a painter, draughtsman, engineer, scientist, theorist, sculptor, and architect.
- 14. a cultural period in the Northern Renaissance that took place in the 14th to 16th centuries in the historical region of..
- 17. a printmaking technique that involves cutting a design into a hard surface, usually metal, to produce images or text.