The Renaissance Quiz

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Across
  1. 3. – Florentine humanist, poet, and scholar who assembled a library of Greek and Roman manuscripts to encourage learning
  2. 4. – the artistic technique that allows an artist to portray depth and three-dimensional qualities by making distant objects smaller
  3. 5. – artist, scientist, and inventor best known for the Mona Lisa and The Last Supper and sketches of inventions such as flying machines
  4. 9. – person who provides financial support for the arts
  5. 10. – subjects such as grammar, poetry, rhetoric, and history
  6. 11. – wrote the Book of the Courtier describing the manners and qualities aristocratic men and women should display
Down
  1. 1. – wrote The Prince, describing how to rule in an age of ruthless power politics
  2. 2. – artist; created sculpture of David and painted the ceiling of the Sistine Chapel
  3. 6. – the Renaissance intellectual movement that studied classical cultures to increase understanding of their own times
  4. 7. – an Italian city-state that produced many gifted artists, scholars, scientists, and architects
  5. 8. – painter; blended Christian and classical styles; famous works include The School of Athens and his portrayals of the Madonna