Renaissance vocab

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Across
  1. 4. a half-length portrait painting by Italian artist Leonardo da Vinci. Considered an archetypal masterpiece of the Italian Renaissance
  2. 5. not subject to or bound by religious rule; not belonging to or living in a monastic or other order.
  3. 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.
  4. 8. a German inventor, printer, publisher, and goldsmith who introduced printing to Europe with his mechanical movable-type printing press.
  5. 10. an Italian polymath of the High Renaissance who was active as a painter, draughtsman, engineer, scientist, theorist, sculptor and architect.
  6. 11. an Italian sculptor, painter, architect and poet of the High Renaissance born in the Republic of Florence,
  7. 12. a Renaissance cultural movement which turned away from medieval scholasticism and revived interest in ancient Greek and Roman thought.
  8. 14. an English lawyer, judge, social philosopher, author, statesman, and noted Renaissance humanist
Down
  1. 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. 2. the revival of art and literature under the influence of classical models in the 14th–16th centuries.
  3. 3. an English playwright, poet and actor, widely regarded as the greatest writer in the English language
  4. 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.
  5. 9. the language or dialect spoken by the ordinary people in a particular country or region.
  6. 13. an imagined place or state of things in which everything is perfect.