Renaissance Vocab

English statesman who opposed Henry VIII's divorce from Catherine of Aragon and was imprisoned and beheaded

period of European history at the close of the Middle Ages

someone who supports or champions something

Italian painter and sculptor & engineer & scientist and architect; the most versatile genius of the Italian Renaissance

German printer who was the first in Europe to print using movable type and the first to use a press (1400-1468)

English poet and dramatist considered one of the greatest English writers (1564-1616)

an Italian poet famous for writing the Divine Comedy that describes a journey through Hell and purgatory and paradise

a statesman of Florence who advocated a strong central government (1469-1527)

Flemish painter who was a founder of the Flemish school of painting and who pioneered modern techniques of oil painting

Florentine sculptor famous for his lifelike sculptures

ideally perfect state

the everyday speech of the people

Dutch humanist and theologian who was the leading Renaissance scholar of northern Europe

Florentine sculptor and painter and architect: Painted the Sistine Chapel, and sculpted the David

doctrine promoting the welfare of mankind

a way of regarding situations or topics

a machine used for printing

someone who is not a clergyman or a professional person. Not Religious

a leading German painter and engraver of the Renaissance