Italian Renaissance Vocabulary and People

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