Renaissance
Across
- 2. a Florentine diplomat, author, philosopher, and historian who lived during the Italian Renaissance
- 6. a German inventor and craftsman who invented the movable-type printing press
- 7. denoting attitudes, activities, or other things that have no religious or spiritual basis.
- 9. the everyday, ordinary language or dialect spoken by a particular group of people in a specific place, as opposed to formal or literary language
- 10. English playwright, poet, actor, and theater entrepreneur
- 13. an English lawyer, judge, social philosopher, author, statesman, theologian, and noted Renaissance humanist
Down
- 1. an imagined place or state of things in which everything is perfect
- 2. Italian sculptor, painter, architect, and poet during the High Renaissance
- 3. Italian polymath and founding figure of the High Renaissance
- 4. a painting technique where pigments are mixed with water and applied to wet lime plaster, which becomes part of the wall as it dries
- 5. the revival of art and literature under the influence of classical models in the 14th–16th centuries.
- 8. an outlook or system of thought attaching prime importance to human rather than divine or supernatural matters
- 11. a half-length portrait painted by Italian Renaissance artist Leonardo da Vinci
- 12. Italian banking family that rose to power in Florence in the 15th century, ruling for nearly two centuries and becoming the de facto rulers of Tuscany