Renaissance Vocab

Flemish painter, his paintings focused on landscapes and domestic life and fused the everyday with the religious

Concerned with worldly rather than spiritual matters

Her work The City of Women discusses the role of women in society. She championed the causes of equality

Florentine ruler; he supported some of the most talented Renaissance artists. He was known for his patronage

Renaissance intellectual movement where thinkers studied classical texts and focused on human potential and achievements

Italian painter; painted the Mona Lisa & The Last Supper

Humanist; wrote on the need for a simple Christian life. His writings caused discontent with the Roman Catholic Church

Italian Renaissance painter; his most famous being The School of Athens

English playwright who wrote such works as Romeo and Juliet, Hamlet, and A Midsummer Night’s Dream

Italian Renaissance sculptor & painter; sculpted the Pieta, the David, and he painted the ceiling of the Sistine Chapel

Italian diplomat; he wrote The Courtier, one of the most important books of the Renaissance

German inventor & printer; invented moveable type. His first printed publication was a 1,282-page Bible

Aside from travel & trade, what else helped Renaissasnce ideas quickly spread

English statesman and author; he wrote Utopia, which describes an ideal society

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German painter, engraver, and theoretician; he combined Italian Renaissance techniques with Northern Renaissance

Italian political philosopher and statesman; he wrote The Prince, which advised rulers to separate morals from politics

“Rebirth”; A sustained period of renewed interest and remarkable development in art, learning, and views of the world