Renaissance

2. another name for the Bubonic plague pandemic that occurred in Europe during the mid-1300s; it killed a significant portion of the European population
5. a person or group of people financing the creation of art
7. the break of communion between the Catholic and Eastern Orthodox churches in 1054
8. an intellectual movement that originated during the Renaissance characterized by a revived interest in the classical world and studies which focused not on religion but on what it is to be human
9. a device that allows for the mass production of uniform printed matter, mainly text in the form of books, pamphlets and newspapers
10. a rounded vault forming the roof of a building or structure, typically with a circular base
14. a system of creating an illusion of depth in a flat surface painting or drawing by using lines that converge in a single vanishing point on the composition's horizon line
15. period of European cultural, artistic, political and economic “rebirth” following the Middle Ages
19. a term generally used by Europeans to describe the Muslim people of North Africa and the Iberian Peninsula during the Middle Ages
20. a philosophical movement that aims to separate religion from civil and political affairs

1. the widespread religious, cultural, and social upheaval of 16th-century Europe that broke the hold of the medieval Church, allowing for the development of new Christian denominations
3. emphasizes the importance of personality and uniqueness of an individual
4. a way for individuals to receive full or partial remission of punishment for sins (a person could have some or all of their time in Purgatory eliminated after their death)
6. the act of banishing a member of a church from the communion of believers and the privileges of the church (cannot receive sacraments, no Christian burial, etc.)
11. a payment, such as property or money, paid by the bride's family to the groom or his family at the time of marriage
12. literally means “fat people”; the class of wealthy merchants and nobles in Renaissance Italy
13. artistic style during the High Italian Renaissance that artificially distorts the natural body (think: a beefy, pumped up, heroic body)
16. the attempt to represent subject matter truthfully, without artificiality and avoiding artistic conventions, or implausible representations of the subjects of the composition
17. the bishop of Rome and the head of the Roman Catholic Church
18. of the roses a series of bloody civil wars for the throne of England between two competing royal families: the House of York and the House of Lancaster