Across
- 4. a person who gives financial or other support to a person, organization, cause, or activity.
- 5. having or representing the sun as the center, as in the accepted astronomical model of the solar system.
- 7. Italian sculptor, painter, architect, and poet of the High Renaissance
- 9. a Venetian merchant, explorer and writer who travelled through Asia along the Silk Road between 1271 and 1295.
- 10. period in music history, the art and culture of ancient Greece and Rome
- 11. a powerful Italian banking family and political dynasty that rose to prominence in Florence
- 12. related to worldly things
Down
- 1. a way of showing the relationship between objects in a drawing to give the look of depth or distance
- 2. an emphasis on worldly concerns; belief in the worth of the individual and that reason is the path to knowledge
- 3. revolutionized printing by using movable type and a press mechanism adapted from wine presses
- 6. a period of significant cultural and artistic flourishing in Europe
- 8. an ancient network of trade routes that connected East Asia (primarily China) with the Mediterranean world