The Renaissance and Reformation Crossword Puzzle

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  1. 5. a person who supports artists, especially financially
  2. 8. Sculptor. Probably exerted greatest influence of any Florentine artist before Michelangelo. His statues expressed an appreciation of the incredible variety of human nature.
  3. 9. A deadly plague that swept through Europe between 1347 and 1351
  4. 10. The selling of favors or forgiveness or prayers by the Church
  5. 11. Dutch humanist and theologian who was the leading Renaissance scholar of northern Europe (1466-1536)
  6. 15. English poet and dramatist considered one of the greatest English writers (1564-1616)
  7. 16. sculptor, painter, architect, inventor, and mathematician. considered well-rounded universal person, painted The Last Supper and Mona Lisa
  8. 18. An Italian sculptor, painter, poet, engineer, and architect. Famous works include the mural on the ceiling of the Sistine Chapel, and the sculpture of the biblical character David.
  9. 19. German printer who invented the movable type printing press;
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  1. 1. Renaissance writer; formerly a politician, wrote The Prince; accepted the philosophy that "the end justifies the means."
  2. 2. Catholic priest who went against the Church by posting the 95 Theses; was excommunicated from the Church and considered a heretic; Considered the founder of the Reformation
  3. 3. Italy's leading cultural center during Renaissance; important for trade and commerce; dominated by Medici's
  4. 4. A Renaissance intellectual movement in which thinkers studied classical texts and focused on human potential and achievements
  5. 6. Italian Renaissance painter; he painted frescos, his most famous being The School of Athens.
  6. 7. A person who is successful when it comes to working, and overall universal, knew how to dance, fight, sing, write poetry, and how to create art, and well educated with the classics.
  7. 8. an Italian poet famous for writing the Divine Comedy (1265-1321)
  8. 12. the everyday speech of the people
  9. 13. Family who ruled Florence during the Renaissance, became wealthy from banking, spent a lot of money on art, controlled Florence for about 3 centuries
  10. 14. "rebirth"; following the Middle Ages, a movement that centered on the revival of interest in the classical learning of Greece and Rome
  11. 17. Concerned with worldly rather than spiritual matters