The Italian Renaissance

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  1. 2. : Is the system of printing and typography that uses movable components to reproduce the elements of a document (usually individual letters or punctuation).
  2. 7. and writer based in Florence during the Renaissance.
  3. 9. : A person whose expertise spans a significant number of different subject areas, referring to the renaissance time period. Very well rounded.
  4. 12. : a proposed explanation for a phenomenon.
  5. 14. : Was an Italian sculptor, painter, architect, poet, and engineer of the High Renaissance who exerted an unparalleled influence on the development of Western art. Also was considered the greatest living artist in his lifetime, and ever since then he has been held to be one of the greatest artists of all time.
  6. 16. : Was an Italian Renaissance polymath: painter, sculptor, architect, musician, mathematician, engineer, inventor, anatomist, geologist, cartographer, botanist, and writer. His genius, perhaps more than that of any other figure, epitomized the Renaissance humanist ideal.
  7. 17. : the astronomical model in which the Earth and planets revolve around a relatively stationary Sun at the center of the Solar System. The word comes from the Greek (helios "sun" and kentron "center").
  8. 18. : Italian scholar and poet in Renaissance Italy.
  9. 19. : a city in northeastern Italy sited on a group of 118 small islands.
  10. 20. : a form of government in which power is held by the people.
  11. 21. : a group of institutions within the judicial system of the Roman Catholic Church whose aim was to combat heresy.
  12. 22. : a body of techniques for investigating phenomena, acquiring new knowledge, or correcting and integrating previous knowledge.
  13. 26. : The power of the mind to think, understand, and form judgments by a process of logic.
  14. 27. : Is a central principle of architectural theory. It is the visual effect of the relationships of the shapes and sizes of the various objects and spaces that make up a structure.
  15. 28. : is the support, encouragement, privilege, or financial aid that an organization or individual bestows to another. In the history of art, it refers to the support that kings, popes and the wealthy have provided to artists such as musicians, painters, and sculptors.
  16. 29. : Is the transfer of parental property to a daughter as her inheritance at her marriage.
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  1. 1. : A leading German painter and engraver of the Renaissance (1471-1528)
  2. 2. : Produced four Popes of the Catholic Church—Pope Leo X (1513–1521), Pope Clement VII (1523–1534), Pope Pius IV (1559–1565), and Pope Leo XI (1605);[1] two regent queens of France—Catherine de' Medici (1547–1559) and Marie de' Medici (1600–1610); and, in 1531, the family became hereditary Dukes of Florence.
  3. 3. : German printer who was the first in Europe to print using movable type and the first to use a press (1400-1468)
  4. 4. : Is a collection of intellectual Greek and Roman teachings, undertaken by scholars, writers, and civic leaders.
  5. 5. : Refers to the burning of objects that are deemed to be occasions of sin. The most infamous one took place on 7 February 1497, when supporters of the Dominican priest Girolamo Savonarola collected and publicly burned thousands of objects like cosmetics, art, and books in Florence, Italy, on the Mardi Gras festival.
  6. 6. : Is an independent or autonomous entity, not administered as a part of another local government, whose territory consists of a city and possibly its surrounding territory.
  7. 8. : he was an Italian historian, politician, diplomat, philosopher,
  8. 10. : Italian religious and political reformer; a Dominican friar in Florence who preached against sin and corruption and gained a large following; he expelled the Medici from Florence but was later excommunicated and executed for criticizing the Pope (1452-1498)
  9. 11. : he was a Renaissance mathematician and astronomer who formulated a heliocentric model of the universe which placed the Sun, rather than the Earth, at the center.
  10. 13. : capital city of the Italian region of Tuscany.
  11. 15. : an Italian physicist, mathematician, astronomer, and philosopher who played a major role in the scientific revolution.
  12. 18. : The way in which objects appear to the eye.
  13. 23. : Contributes to literature, philosophy, science, the arts, and letters that are still relevant today.
  14. 24. : Is the land or district behind a coast or the shoreline of a river.
  15. 25. : This painting technique has been employed since antiquity and is closely associated with Italian Renaissance painting.