Renaissance Vocabulary

The language of everyday speech in a particular region

Painting done on fresh, wet plaster with water-based paints

Artistic techniques used to give the effect of 3-dimensional depth to 2-dimensional surfaces

Basic or Essential Part

A change to a lower state or level

To influence or control

Government in which the leader is not a king and certain citizens have the right to vote

A soldier who fights primarily for pay

A member of the middle class who lived in a city or a town

Intellectual movement based on the study of the classics