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- 4. a half-length portrait painting by Italian artist Leonardo da Vinci. Considered an archetypal masterpiece of the Italian Renaissance
- 5. not subject to or bound by religious rule; not belonging to or living in a monastic or other order.
- 7. an Italian diplomat, philosopher, and historian who lived during the Renaissance. He is best known for his political treatise The Prince, written about 1513.
- 8. a German inventor, printer, publisher, and goldsmith who introduced printing to Europe with his mechanical movable-type printing press.
- 10. an Italian polymath of the High Renaissance who was active as a painter, draughtsman, engineer, scientist, theorist, sculptor and architect.
- 11. an Italian sculptor, painter, architect and poet of the High Renaissance born in the Republic of Florence,
- 12. a Renaissance cultural movement which turned away from medieval scholasticism and revived interest in ancient Greek and Roman thought.
- 14. an English lawyer, judge, social philosopher, author, statesman, and noted Renaissance humanist
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- 1. a mural painting technique that involves painting with water-based paint directly onto wet plaster so that the paint becomes an integral part of the plaster.
- 2. the revival of art and literature under the influence of classical models in the 14th–16th centuries.
- 3. an English playwright, poet and actor, widely regarded as the greatest writer in the English language
- 6. an Italian banking family and political dynasty that first began to gather prominence under Cosimo de' Medici in the Republic of Florence during the first half of the 15th century.
- 9. the language or dialect spoken by the ordinary people in a particular country or region.
- 13. an imagined place or state of things in which everything is perfect.
