Renaissance Crossword

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  1. 4. a Flemish painter. He is often known as the "father of oil painting" because of all the new techniques and advances he made in oil painting
  2. 7. one of the last great Renaissance artists. He was known for his realistic physical and emotional paintings. He also made use of light in his painting for added drama. His art influenced the next era of painting called the Baroque style of painting
  3. 8. Astronomer who made many discoveries about the planets and stars
  4. 10. sort of like chemistry, but generally wasn't based on a lot of scientific facts. A lot of people thought that there was a single substance from which all other substances could be made. Many hoped to find a way to make gold and become rich
  5. 11. This chapel is said to be a masterpiece of the simple form of the architecture of the time. It is thought that the original design was by Filippo Brunelleschi even though the building wasn't finished until nearly 20 years after his death
  6. 12. Originally built in 1458 for Florence banker Luca Pitti, this palace later became part of the Medici family empire
  7. 13. This majestic building was built in the late 1500s as the palace of the King of Spain. It is laid out in orderly symmetric squares as shown in the picture below. Some believe that the floor plan was to mimic Solomon's Temple
  8. 14. Playwright considered the greatest writer in the English language
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  1. 1. A chapel that is part of the official residence of the Pope in Vatican City, this building is most noted for its ceilings painted by Michelangelo
  2. 2. Inventor of the printing press
  3. 3. developed during the Renaissance. Galileo used controlled experiments and analyzed data to prove, or disprove, his theories. The process was later refined by scientists such as Francis Bacon and Isaac Newton
  4. 5. a sculptor and one of the pioneers in Renaissance art. He lived in Florence, Italy at the start of the Renaissance. He was a humanist and interested in Greek and Roman sculpture. He introduced new ways of creating depth and perspective in art
  5. 6. a Swiss scientist and botanist who helped to make many advances in medicine. He studied current practices in medicine and found that most doctors actually made patient's conditions worse rather than healing them
  6. 9. a German theologian and priest. He objected to many of the practices of the Catholic Church such as paying to get into heaven and the authority of the Pope