Across
- 4. Best known for the Decameron, a series of stories
- 5. Grew into international powerhouse
- 6. Often regarded as the greatest playwriter
- 8. Woman writer with great influence
- 9. Intellectual movement
- 11. One of the first women writers
- 13. Famous for his use of perspective
- 14. A financial supporter of artists
- 15. First book printed with movable type
- 19. Developed the printing press
- 20. Used realistic style when depicting the human body
- 24. A series of voyages during the 1400's, 1500's, and early 1600's
- 25. Worldly
- 27. Wrote influential book with rules and plans for buildings
- 28. Reigned from 1558-1603
- 29. Became a center of manufacturing
- 30. Paints portraits, often of English royalty
Down
- 1. Banking family that controls Florence
- 2. A rediscovery of learning that produced many great works of are and literature
- 3. Captures scenes of peasant life with realistic details
- 7. First woman to gain world renown
- 10. Flourishing independent city-state until the 1130's
- 12. In the 1400s, the ideas of the Italian Renaissance began to spread to Northern Europe.
- 16. a bubonic plague pandemic occurring in Europe from 1346 to 1353
- 17. Painted strong, heroic women
- 18. Author of political guidebook, The Prince
- 21. Best-known Christian humanist
- 22. Pioneer in oil-based painting, uses layers of paint
- 23. The artistic center of northern Europe
- 26. His woodcuts and engravings emphasize realism