renaissance vocabulary

4. the language or dialect spoken by the ordinary people in a particular country or region
6. denoting attitudes, activities, or other things that have no religious or spiritual basis
11. an Italian diplomat, author, philosopher and historian who lived during the Renaissance
12. an outlook or system of thought attaching prime importance to human rather than divine or supernatural matters.
13. a German inventor and craftsman who introduced letterpress printing to Europe with his movable-type printing press.
14. an Italian polymath of the High Renaissance who was active as a painter, draughtsman, engineer, scientist, theorist, sculptor, and architect

1. Born in the Republic of Florence, his work was inspired by models from classical antiquity and had a lasting influence on Western art.
2. an English lawyer, judge, social philosopher, author, statesman, and noted Renaissance humanist
3. method of painting water-based pigments on freshly applied plaster, usually on wall surfaces
5. the revival of art and literature under the influence of classical models in the 14th–16th centuries.
7. an imagined place or state of things in which everything is perfect.
8. a half-length portrait painting by Italian artist Leonardo da Vinci.
9. Italian bourgeois family that ruled Florence and, later, Tuscany during most of the period
10. often called England's national poet and the "Bard of Avon".