The Renaissance
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- 3. is a city in northern Italy, capital of Lombardy, and the second-most populous city proper in Italy after Rome
- 4. a Christian church which contains the seat of a bishop
- 7. the great revival of art, literature, and learning in Europe beginning in the 14th century and extending to the 17th century
- 9. using a language native to a region or country rather than a literary, cultured, or foreign language
- 11. a fee that borrowers pay for the use of someone else’s money
- 15. is a city in northeastern Italy and the capital of the Veneto region
- 21. is known primarily for his "Book of the Courtier."
- 23. German painter his woodcuts and engravings reflect the influence of the Italian Renaissance, because they portray religious subjects, classical myths and realistic landscapes
- 24. is a city in Central-Northern Italy and the capital city of the Tuscany region
- 25. Alighieri, s best known for the monumental epic poem La commedia, later named La divina commedia (The Divine Comedy)
- 26. Machiavelli, was an Italian diplomat, author, philosopher, and historian who lived during the Renaissance
- 27. is the most populous metropolitan city in Italy
- 28. was one of greatest Italian Renaissance artists, noted especially for his sculptures in marble, bronze, and wood
- 30. is credited with the invention of the oil-glazing technique
- 31. the technique (used in art) representing on a plane or curved surface the spatial relation of objects as they might appear to the eye
- 32. a painting done rapidly in watercolor on wet plaster on a wall or ceiling
- 33. a variety of ethical theory and practice that emphasizes reason, scientific inquiry, and human fulfillment
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- 1. type from which text is printed directly in which each character is on a separate piece of metal
- 2. a period in British history during the reign of Elizabeth I in the 16th century; an age marked by literary achievement and domestic prosperity
- 5. Italian polymath of the High Renaissance who was active as a painter, draughtsman, engineer, scientist, theorist, sculptor, and architect
- 6. was a French Renaissance writer who wrote some of the very first feminist pieces of literature
- 7. was a remarkable painter, and he produced several masterpieces, His mastery of technique and his emotional depth of his art was revolutionary
- 8. a number or quantity that when multiplied by itself gives a given number or quantity
- 10. a machine developed by Johannes Gutenberg for printing on paper
- 12. is best known for designing the dome of the Duomo in Florence, but he was also a talented artist
- 13. a collection of kingdoms, duchies, and smaller regions that were slowly brought back under direct papal control
- 14. a state in which supreme power is held by the people and their elected representatives, and which has an elected or nominated president rather than a monarch
- 16. the frescoes on the ceiling of the Sistine Chapel (1508–12) in the Vatican, which include the iconic depiction of the creation of Adam interpreted from Genesis
- 17. scientific study of the morphology of the adult human, it is subdivided into gross anatomy and microscopic anatomy
- 18. a scholar who laid the foundations for Renaissance humanism
- 19. famous for having designed and built the first printing press to incorporate movable type and mechanized inking
- 20. covering the southern portion of the Italian peninsula from the Middle Ages to 1860
- 22. A measure of spatial extent, especially width, height, or length
- 29. profoundly influenced the art of painting in the Renaissance, used light and perspective to give his figures weight and three-dimensionality