Renaissance Vocab Crossword

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Across
  1. 3. A painting applied to and made integral to the surface of a wall or ceiling.
  2. 4. The fine shading that produces soft, imperceptible transitions between colours and tones.
  3. 7. In the Roman Catholic church, a society whose members attempt to attain Christian perfection through the practice of poverty, chastity (celibacy), and obedience and to carry out the work of the church while “living in and of the world,” attending privately to their business or professional duties.
  4. 9. During the 16th century the patron played a much greater role in the development of English Renaissance architecture than did the architect; there were almost no professional architects who were trained as the Italians were in the theory of design and building.
  5. 11. Seen as a small intimate place of worship.
  6. 13. An Italian master painter and architect of the Italian High Renaissance.
  7. 16. A political and social philosophy that emphasizes the moral worth of the individual.
  8. 17. The religious revolution that took place in the Western church in the 16th century.
  9. 19. A building designed for Christian worship.
  10. 20. Common domestic architecture of a region is usually far simpler than what the technology of the time is capable of maintaining.
  11. 22. An Italian Renaissance sculptor, painter, architect, and poet who exerted an exceptional influence on the development of Western art.
  12. 23. A saint to whose protection and intercession a person, a society, a church, or a place is dedicated.
  13. 25. A city in Italy, located about 145 miles (230 km) northwest of Rome, is surrounded by gently rolling hills that are covered with villas and farms, vineyards, and orchards.
Down
  1. 1. A technique employed in the visual arts to represent light and shadow as they define three-dimensional objects.
  2. 2. A German craftsman and inventor who originated a method of printing from movable type.
  3. 5. An aesthetic attitude and art style based on or reiterating themes, techniques, and subjects of art from ancient Greece and Rome.
  4. 6. A system of creating an illusion of depth on a flat surface.
  5. 7. An artistic form in which hard materials (such as marble, or bronze) are worked into three-dimensional art objects.
  6. 8. An Italian painter, draftsman, sculptor, architect, and engineer whose skill and intelligence, perhaps more than any other figure, epitomized the Renaissance humanist ideal.
  7. 10. A method of painting water-based pigments on freshly applied plaster, usually on wall surfaces.
  8. 12. An Italian expert in sculpture in both marble and bronze, one of the greatest of all Italian Renaissance artists.
  9. 14. Any work where the projection from a supporting background is shallow.
  10. 15. A system of education and mode of inquiry that originated in northern Italy during the 13th and 14th centuries and later spread through continental Europe and England.
  11. 18. Painting in oil colors, a medium consisting of pigments suspended in drying oils
  12. 21. Method of graphically depicting three-dimensional objects and spatial relationships on a two-dimensional plane or on a plane that is shallower than the original (for example, in flat relief).
  13. 24. A movement that was inspired by the adaptation of the principles and methods of natural science, especially the Darwinian view of nature, to literature and art.