Across
- 3. a person who gives financial or other support to a person, organization, cause, or activity.
- 5. an Italian sculptor, painter, architect, and poet of the High Renaissance who worked on the Statue of David
- 8. the great revival of art that took place in Italy from about 1400 under the influence of the rediscovery of classical art and culture.
- 10. relating to the ancient Greek and Roman world and especially to its literature, art, architecture, or ideals
- 11. an Italian merchant, explorer and writer from the Republic of Venice who travelled through Asia along the Silk Road between 1271 and 1295
- 12. network of Eurasian trade routes active from the second century BCE until the mid-15th century.
Down
- 1. parallel lines converging to a single point
- 2. a German inventor and craftsman who introduced letterpress printing to Europe with his movable-type printing press.
- 4. an Italian banking family and political dynasty that first consolidated power in the Republic of Florence under Cosimo de' Medici, during the first half of the 15th century.
- 6. a Renaissance cultural movement which turned away from medieval scholasticism and revived interest in ancient Greek and Roman thought.
- 7. an Italian polymath of the High Renaissance who was active as a painter, draughtsman, engineer, scientist, theorist, sculptor, and architect who worked on the Mona Lisa
- 9. an Italian painter and architect of the High Renaissance who worked on the Sistine Madonna