Renaissance Vocab

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  1. 1. Italian statesman and scholar who supported many artists and humanists including Michelangelo and Leonardo and Botticelli
  2. 6. Italian Renaissance sculptor, architect, painter, and poet; he sculpted the Pieta and the David, and he painted the ceiling of the Sistine Chapel which took him four years to paint. The ceiling shows sweeping scenes from the Old Testament of the Bible.
  3. 7. Henry VIII's second wife; had a daughter, Elizabeth; rebellious against Henry; charged with treason and later beheaded
  4. 8. A Renaissance intellectual movement in which thinkers studied classical texts and focused on human potential and achievements
  5. 9. Concerned with worldly rather than spiritual matters
  6. 10. King of England from 1509 to 1547; his desire to annul his marriage led to a conflict with the pope, England's break with the Roman Catholic Church, and its embrace of Protestantism. Henry established the Church of England in 1532.
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  1. 2. An Italian philosopher/writer that is considered one of the main founders of modern political science. Wrote,The Prince, which examines the acquisition, perpetuation, and use of political power in the western world. He justified rule by force.
  2. 3. King Henry VIII's first wife who gave birth to Mary, and from whom he wanted an annulment-sparking the events that would eventually lead up to the birth of the Church of England.
  3. 4. German printer who was the first in Europe to print using movable type and the first to use a press (1400-1468)
  4. 5. Sculptor. Probably exerted greatest influence of any Florentine artist before Michelangelo. His statues expressed an appreciation of the incredible variety of human nature.