The Renaissance Key Terms

Question 1

A wealthy person who commissioned an artist to produce artwork

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Patron

Question 2

A fourteen line rhyming poem popular during the Renaissance

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Sonnet

Question 3

The study of the human body structure

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Anatomy

Question 4

A method of painting onto wet plaster

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Fresco

Question 5

Language as spoken by people in their native country

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Vernacular

Question 6

Holding a view that went against teachings of the church

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Heresy

Question 7

A method of printing books that placed individual metal letters into a frame to form words

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Printing press

Question 8

The creation of depth and distance in painting

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Perspective

Question 9

A painting techniques that blurs or smudges lines and colours to soften textures

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Sfumato

Question 10

What term means rebirth and was a time of change in art, literature and science from 1350-1650

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Renaissance

Question 11

The idea that humans should be at the centre of everything we do - world view

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Humanism

Question 12

The study of planets and stars

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Astronomy

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