The Renaissance

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  1. 3. is a city in northern Italy, capital of Lombardy, and the second-most populous city proper in Italy after Rome
  2. 4. a Christian church which contains the seat of a bishop
  3. 7. the great revival of art, literature, and learning in Europe beginning in the 14th century and extending to the 17th century
  4. 9. using a language native to a region or country rather than a literary, cultured, or foreign language
  5. 11. a fee that borrowers pay for the use of someone else’s money
  6. 15. is a city in northeastern Italy and the capital of the Veneto region
  7. 21. is known primarily for his "Book of the Courtier."
  8. 23. German painter his woodcuts and engravings reflect the influence of the Italian Renaissance, because they portray religious subjects, classical myths and realistic landscapes
  9. 24. is a city in Central-Northern Italy and the capital city of the Tuscany region
  10. 25. Alighieri, s best known for the monumental epic poem La commedia, later named La divina commedia (The Divine Comedy)
  11. 26. Machiavelli, was an Italian diplomat, author, philosopher, and historian who lived during the Renaissance
  12. 27. is the most populous metropolitan city in Italy
  13. 28. was one of greatest Italian Renaissance artists, noted especially for his sculptures in marble, bronze, and wood
  14. 30. is credited with the invention of the oil-glazing technique
  15. 31. the technique (used in art) representing on a plane or curved surface the spatial relation of objects as they might appear to the eye
  16. 32. a painting done rapidly in watercolor on wet plaster on a wall or ceiling
  17. 33. a variety of ethical theory and practice that emphasizes reason, scientific inquiry, and human fulfillment
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  1. 1. type from which text is printed directly in which each character is on a separate piece of metal
  2. 2. a period in British history during the reign of Elizabeth I in the 16th century; an age marked by literary achievement and domestic prosperity
  3. 5. Italian polymath of the High Renaissance who was active as a painter, draughtsman, engineer, scientist, theorist, sculptor, and architect
  4. 6. was a French Renaissance writer who wrote some of the very first feminist pieces of literature
  5. 7. was a remarkable painter, and he produced several masterpieces, His mastery of technique and his emotional depth of his art was revolutionary
  6. 8. a number or quantity that when multiplied by itself gives a given number or quantity
  7. 10. a machine developed by Johannes Gutenberg for printing on paper
  8. 12. is best known for designing the dome of the Duomo in Florence, but he was also a talented artist
  9. 13. a collection of kingdoms, duchies, and smaller regions that were slowly brought back under direct papal control
  10. 14. a state in which supreme power is held by the people and their elected representatives, and which has an elected or nominated president rather than a monarch
  11. 16. the frescoes on the ceiling of the Sistine Chapel (1508–12) in the Vatican, which include the iconic depiction of the creation of Adam interpreted from Genesis
  12. 17. scientific study of the morphology of the adult human, it is subdivided into gross anatomy and microscopic anatomy
  13. 18. a scholar who laid the foundations for Renaissance humanism
  14. 19. famous for having designed and built the first printing press to incorporate movable type and mechanized inking
  15. 20. covering the southern portion of the Italian peninsula from the Middle Ages to 1860
  16. 22. A measure of spatial extent, especially width, height, or length
  17. 29. profoundly influenced the art of painting in the Renaissance, used light and perspective to give his figures weight and three-dimensionality