Renaissance Puzzle

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  1. 3. French word meaning rebirth, now used in English to describe the great revival of art that took place in Italy from about 1400 under the influence of the rediscovery of classical art and culture.
  2. 4. Secular denoting attitudes, activities, or other things that have no religious or spiritual basis.
  3. 5. family Medici Family a wealthy and powerful family of Italian bankers and merchants
  4. 7. Humanism His findings encouraged him to speak out for the Copernican view that the earth revolved around the sun. However, his views were considered heretical, and he was placed under house arrest.
  5. 10. Michelangelo di Lodovico Buonarroti Simoni, known as Michelangelo, was an Italian sculptor, painter, architect, and poet of the High Renaissance. Born in the Republic of Florence, his work was inspired by models from classical antiquity and had a lasting influence on Western art.
  6. 11. a cosmological model in which the Sun is assumed to lie at or near a central point (e.g., of the solar system or of the universe) while the Earth and other bodies revolve around it.
  7. 12. SilkRoad a network of paths connecting civilizations in the East and West
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  1. 1. Perspective the art of drawing solid objects on a two-dimensional surface so as to give the right impression of their height, width, depth, and position in relation to each other when viewed from a particular point.
  2. 2. While today we often focus on the artist who made an artwork, in the renaissance it was the patron—the person or group of people paying for the image—who was considered the primary force behind a work's creation.
  3. 6. Johann Gutenberg's invention of movable-type printing quickened the spread of knowledge, discoveries, and literacy in Renaissance Europe. The printing revolution also contributed mightily to the Protestant Reformation that split apart the Catholic Church.
  4. 8. Polo Marco Polo was an Italian merchant, explorer and writer from the Republic of Venice who traveled through Asia along the Silk Road between 1271 and 1295.
  5. 9. Classical relating to ancient Greek or Latin literature, art, or culture.