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- 3. Roads/the ancient trade routes that connected Europe with China
- 7. Italian artist who worked mainly as a sculptor but also painted such famous works as the ceiling of the Sistine chapel
- 8. press/a machine from pressing paper against inked movable type
- 9. person who supports an activity or institution by providing financial backing
- 10. Shakespeare/most famous English writer of the Renaissance, best known for his plays "Romeo and Juliet" and "Hamlet"
- 11. Age/the period of the rule of Queen Elizabeth 1 in England
- 12. person who produces paintings or drawings as a profession or hobby
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- 1. period of rebirth and creativity in art, writing, and thought from about A.D 1300-1600, beginning in Italy and eventually spreading throughout Europe
- 2. city in west central Italy; pop. 408,000. It was a leading center of the Italian Renaissance, esp. under the rule of the Medici family
- 4. da Vinci/an Italian Renaissance painter who painted the "Mona Lisa" and "The Last Supper"
- 5. movement in Renaissance Europe celebrating human potential and achievement and stressing the study subjects such as history, grammar. literature, and philosophy
- 6. technique od painting, developed during during the Renaissance, that represents the appearance of objects in three-dimentional space