Unit 2 Renaissance Vocab

2. a severe epidemic of plague and especially bubonic plague that occurred in Asia and Europe in the 14th century
6. Florentine sculptor, painter, architect, and poet
8. a technique that gives art depth or definition
11. the long conflict that pitted the kings and kingdoms of France and England against each other from 1337 to 1453
12. wealthy merchant class who supports the arts
14. not subject to or bound by religious rule
15. the language or dialect spoken by the ordinary people in a particular country or region

1. the English poet and playwright (= writer of plays) who is often described as the greatest writer in the English language
3. a German painter, printmaker and theorist from Nuremberg
4. a focus on the individual
5. an Italian family of bankers, merchants, and rulers of Florence and Tuscany
7. painted the mona lisa
9. the revival of art and literature under the influence of classical models in the 14th–16th centuries.
10. an Italian poet famous for love lyrics, father of humanism
13. painter known for his madonnas