Renaissance Key Terms

3. German Renaissance artist, he is famous for his prints and woodcuts.
5. Renaissance genius, painter, sculptor, inventor, engineer, mapmaker, etc.
7. Italian banker/leader of Florence, helped bring about Renaissance.
11. Dutch priest who criticized corrupt clergy, inspired Protestant Reformation.
13. Italian Renaissance poet, wrote The Divine Comedy in Italian language.
14. Italian Renaissance architect, he used math to design strong buildings.
15. The study of history, literature, public speaking, and art that led to a new way of thinking in Europe in the 1300’s.
16. A fee that borrowers pay for the use of someone else’s money.

1. German printer, he developed a printing press that used movable type.
2. Italian writer/politician, wrote The Prince, advised leaders on how to rule.
4. English Renaissance writer and playwright
6. A method of showing a three-dimensional scene on a flat surface so that it looks real.
8. The combination of humanist and religious ideas
9. Italian Renaissance artist, designed buildings, wrote, sculpted, painted, etc.
10. The period of “rebirth” and creativity that followed Europe’s Middle Ages.
12. Early Italian Renaissance scholar, wrote about importance of history.