- Renaissance Crossword -

4. a person who gives financial or other support to a person, organization, cause, or activity.
5. Sun-centered theory of the universe
7. An influential architect, poet, sculptor and painter in Florence
9. A Venetian merchant and adventurer who explored Asia and stayed in China for 17 years
10. (typically of a form of art) regarded as representing an exemplary standard; traditional and long-established in form or style
11. a wealthy and powerful family of Italian bankers and merchants during the renaissance
12. The interest in more worldly ideas and events, not just religious ones

1. A way of showing people and things as they appear at different distances
2. An emphasis on worldly concerns; belief in the worth of an individual and that reason is the path to knowledge
3. Inventor of the printing press with movable metal type
6. Meaning “rebirth”; a time period in which culture, education and art was more appreciated
8. an ancient trade route that linked the Western world with the Middle East and Asia