Renaissance Crossword Puzzle

2. A way of showing people and things as they appear at different distances.
3. A Venetian merchant and explorer with a fun pool game named after him
5. a wealthy individual, often a ruler or aristocratic family, who financially supported and commissioned artists to create works of art
6. An emphasis on worldly concerns; believe in the worth of the individual and that reason is the path to knowledge.
8. they become more interested in worldly ideas and events, not just religious ones.
9. A road that made it easier and cheaper for caravans to carry goods between China and the middle east.
10. The inventor of the printing press with movable type
11. a powerful family that controlled the government for many years.

1. An Italian sculptor and painter who painted the ceiling of the sistine chapel
4. a style characterized by balance, clarity, and formal structure, distinct from popular or folk music
7. a theory that proposed the Sun, rather than the Earth, was the center of the solar system