Renaissance crossword
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- 3. a powerful Italian banking family and political dynasty that ruled Florence and Tuscany from the 15th to the 18th century
- 6. Italian polymath and founding figure of the High Renaissance
- 7. significant shift during the Renaissance period where the use of everyday languages (like Italian, French, and English) in literature and other works increased, eventually replacing Latin as the dominant written
- 9. a period in which secular, or non-religious, ideas and pursuits became prominent alongside religious ones
- 12. a Florentine diplomat, author, philosopher, and historian who lived during the Italian Renaissance
- 13. a philosophical and ethical stance that emphasizes human agency, reason, and scientific inquiry over religious dogma
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- 1. a half-length portrait painting by Italian Renaissance artist Leonardo da Vinci, created between 1503 and
- 2. famous for three things – his History of Richard III, portraying Richard as a bloody tyrant and murderer of his nephews; his authorship of Utopia,
- 3. Italian sculptor, painter, architect, and poet during the High Renaissance
- 4. a mural painting technique executed on wet plaster, where pigments are applied to a final, thin layer of plaster (intonaco)
- 5. a fictional, perfect society or an ideal, but often impossibly idealistic, social system
- 8. a period in European civilization that was marked by a revival of Classical learning and wisdom
- 10. English playwright, poet, actor, and theater entrepreneur
- 11. German craftsman and inventor who revolutionized information sharing with his invention of the movable-type printing press