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211299148Renaissancethe period of European history at the close of the Middle Ages and the rise of the modern world, lasting from about 1300 to 1600
211299149City-statesan autonomous state consisting of a city and surrounding territory
211299150Humanismthe doctrine emphasizing a person's capacity for self-realization through reason;, a philosophy in which interests and values of human beings are of primary importance;, an intellectual movement that focused on human potential and achievements
211299151Vernacularbeing or characteristic of or appropriate to everyday language
211299152Florentine AcademyNot a formal school, but an informal gathering of influential Florentine humanists who devoted themselves to the revival of the works of Plato and Neoplatonists.
211299153PlatonismThis taught that reality was in mental ideas, not in tangible objects.
211299154Virtuethe quality of doing what is right and avoiding what is wrong
211299155Christian Humanisma movement that developed in northern Europe during the renaissance combining classical learning with the goal of reforming the catholic church
211309362MasaccioThe renaissance artist who led the way in establishing a new style of employing deep space, modeling , and anatomical correctness.He used light and dark imagery to illustrate different feelings and emotions
211309363DonatelloOne of the first and best Renaissance sculptors. He was also one of the first artists to sell his works.famous for his lifelike sculptures (1386-1466)
211309364DaVinciwas sculptor, painter, architect, inventor, and mathematician. considered well-rounded universal person.
211309365Michaelangelopainter, sculptor, and architect; painting on the ceiling of the Sistine Chapel in Rome
211309366RaphaelItalian painter whose many paintings exemplify the ideals of the High Renaissance (1483-1520)
211309367GrunewaldGerman painter who ignored classicism and painted expressively and intensely
211309368Durera leading German painter and engraver of the Renaissance (1471-1528)
211309369VanEyckwho was one of the first painters to use oils.detail and distance;

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