Unit 6 Renaissance Vocab

everyday language of ordinary people

a person who provides financial support for the arts

Florentine humanist, poet, and scholar who assembled a library of Greek and Roman manuscripts

artist;created sculpture of David and painted the ceiling of the Sistine Chapel

artist,scientist, and inventor best known for the Mona Lisa and The Last Supper

an important religious scholar; called for the translation of the Bible into the vernacular

study of as grammar, rhetoric, poetry, and history that were taught in Greece and Rome

 idealistic or visionary, usually used to describe a perfect society

artform in which an artist etches a design on a metal plate then makes multiple prints

a region that included parts of present day northern France, Belgium, and the Netherlands

the leading English language poet and playwright of the Renaissance

wrote the Book of the Courtier describing the manners and qualities 

 intellectual movement during the Renaissance that focused on education and the classic

in 1455, printed a complete Bible on a printing press with movable type

wroteThe Prince, describing how to rule in an age of ruthless power politics

applied painting techniques to engraving; spread Renaissance ideas in northern Europe

a city in the Tuscany region of northern Italy that was the center of the Italian Renaissance

artistic technique used to give paintings and drawings a three-dimensional effect

Famous painter known for his work the Madonna

wrote Utopia,  an ideal and peaceful society in which people live in peace, all are educated