Renaissance Review

1. a state where the citizens elect their representatives to form a government
6. comparative relation among the parts of something
7. a term used to describe a person who is skilled in many areas
8. painted with water color on fresh wet plaster
9. a gold coin
11. the area surrounding a city that is used for farming
12. an accomplished portrait painter who used art to achieve fame and independence
16. a government made up of a small group of upper class individuals
17. the art of drawing objects on a 2-D surface to give the impression of height, width, depth, and position
19. disagreed with the Humanist idea that people could improve themselves on their own
21. a collection

2. the first scientist to claim that the earth was not the center of the universe using mathematics
3. men who would fight for money
4. a Catholic religious order
5. a painter, sculptor, inventor, engineer, and scientist
10. spent life studying manuscripts from ancient Rome
13. an artist who engraves a picture onto a metal plate and uses the plate as a stamp
14. founded a university at Pisa and an academy in Florence
15. inventor of the printing press with movable type
18. discovered that the moon was solid and confirmed that the earth revolves around the sun using a telescope
20. a belief that rejects the orthodox ideas of a religion