Renaissance Crossword

2. German printer who developed a printing press.
6. Person who supports or gives money to artists, writers, or musicians.
7. An emphasis on worldly concerns; belief in the worth of the individual and that reason is the path to knowledge.
9. Way of showing people and things as they appear at different distances.
10. French word for “rebirth.”
12. Route that made it easier and cheaper for caravans to carry goods between China and the Middle East.

1. Sun-centered theory of the universe.
3. Wealthy and powerful family in Florence who used their wealth to support artists, architects, and writers.
4. Ancient cultures of Greece and Rome that Renaissance artists, writers, and thinkers looked back to for inspiration.
5. An influential architect and poet as well as a sculptor and painter.
8. Venetian merchant who made Europeans excited about Asia and its wealth.
11. When people become more interested in worldly ideas and events, not just religious ones.