Renaissance Vocab

4. the spirit of the Renaissance society; worldly rather than spiritual
7. an Italian sculptor, painter, architect, and poet of the High Renaissance
8. an imagined place or state of things in which everything is perfect
10. a technique of mural painting executed upon freshly-laid lime plaster
11. the revival of art and literature under the influence of classical models in the 14th-16th century
13. an Italian diplomat, philosopher, and historian who lived during the Renaissance; often called the father of modern political philosophy and political science
14. the Italian family that ruled Florence, and later Tuscany during 1434-1737

1. an English playwright, poet, and actor, widely regarded as the greatest writer in the English language and the world's greatest dramatist
2. a German inventor, printer, publisher, and goldsmith who introduced printing to Europe with his mechanical movable-type printing press
3. an Italian polymath of the High Renaissance who was active as a painter, draughtsman, engineer, scientist, theorist, sculptor, and architect
5. a half-length portrait painting by Italian artist Leonardo da Vinci; Considered an archetypal masterpiece of the Italian Renaissance
6. a Renaissance cultural movement that turned away from medieval scholasticism and revived interest in ancient Greek and Roman thought
9. the local language the people spoke
12. an English lawyer, judge, social philosopher, author, statesman, and noted Renaissance humanist