Renaissance Crossword Puzzle

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Across
  1. 3. a person who gives financial or other support to a person, organization, cause, or activity.
  2. 5. an Italian sculptor, painter, architect, and poet of the High Renaissance who worked on the Statue of David
  3. 8. the great revival of art that took place in Italy from about 1400 under the influence of the rediscovery of classical art and culture.
  4. 10. relating to the ancient Greek and Roman world and especially to its literature, art, architecture, or ideals
  5. 11. an Italian merchant, explorer and writer from the Republic of Venice who travelled through Asia along the Silk Road between 1271 and 1295
  6. 12. network of Eurasian trade routes active from the second century BCE until the mid-15th century.
Down
  1. 1. parallel lines converging to a single point
  2. 2. a German inventor and craftsman who introduced letterpress printing to Europe with his movable-type printing press.
  3. 4. an Italian banking family and political dynasty that first consolidated power in the Republic of Florence under Cosimo de' Medici, during the first half of the 15th century.
  4. 6. a Renaissance cultural movement which turned away from medieval scholasticism and revived interest in ancient Greek and Roman thought.
  5. 7. an Italian polymath of the High Renaissance who was active as a painter, draughtsman, engineer, scientist, theorist, sculptor, and architect who worked on the Mona Lisa
  6. 9. an Italian painter and architect of the High Renaissance who worked on the Sistine Madonna