158376566 | Patron | person who financially supports the arts | |
158376567 | Humanism | a Renaissance intellectual movement in which thinkers studied classical texts and focused on human potential and achievements | |
158376568 | Humanities | study of subjects taught in ancient Greece and Rome, such as grammar, rhetoric, poetry, and history | |
158376569 | Perspective | technique that shows three dimensions on a flat surface | |
158376570 | de'Medici | Italian statesman and scholar who supported many artists and humanists including Michelangelo and Leonardo and Botticelli (1449-1492) | |
158376571 | Petrarch | one of the first humanists, lived from 1304 to 1374, famous scholar/teacher/poet, believed that classical writings (greek and roman) should be studied and imitated | |
158376572 | da Vinci | Italian Renaissance artist that painted The Last Supper and Mona Lisa, he was also an engineer, architect, sculptor, and scientist. | |
158376573 | Michelangelo | Italian Renaissance artist that painted the Sistine Chapel ceiling and sculpted the statue of David. | |
158376574 | Raphael | (1483-1520) Italian Renaissance painter; he painted frescos, his most famous being The School of Athens. | |
158376575 | Machiavelli | Italian Renaissance writer, described government in the way it actually worked (ruthless). He wrote The Prince (the end justifies the mean). | |
160078148 | engraving | art form in which an artist etches a design on a metal plate with acid and then uses the plate to make multiple prints | |
160078149 | vernacular | everyday language of ordinary people | |
160078150 | Utopian | characteristic of an ideal society; visionary | |
160078151 | Durer | a leading German painter and engraver of the Renaissance (1471-1528) | |
160078152 | van Eyck | first to use oils in painting | |
160078153 | Bruegel | Painted everyday scenes of peasant life such as weddings and harvests. Flemish. | |
160078154 | Erasmus | Dutch humanist and theologian who was the leading Renaissance scholar of northern Europe | |
160078155 | More | English humanist and author of Utopia | |
160078156 | Cervantes | Author of Don Quixote | |
160078157 | Gutenberg | Inventor of the printing press |
Italian Renaissance Vocabulary and People
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