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Renaissance: a renewal or rebirth of interest in Greek and Roman arts.…
Renaissance
: a renewal or rebirth of interest in Greek and Roman arts.
Secular
: related to worldly things
Vernacular
: a type of writing that included Italian, French, and German.
Perspective
: a way of showing people and things appear at different distances.
Italy
: independent city-states and home to the birthplace of the Renaissance
Venice
: leading Renaissance city, located on the northern coast of the Adriatic Sea in eastern Italy, built on many small canals.
Florence
: The first major center of the Renaissance; it's wealth and central location attracted many artists, sculptors, and architects.
Urban
: More people were living in cities than in the country.
Patronage
: a person who gives financial support to a person, cause, event, or activity
Currency
: something such as coins or paper money, that is used as a medium of exchange; money in the form of coins or paper
Merchants
: a person who buys or sells commodities for profit, dealer, trader.
Printing Press
: helped spread humanist ideas throughout Europe. Also the new press held individual carved letters that could be arranged to form words and then could be used again.
Humanism
: an emphasis on worldly concerns; belief in the worth of the individual and that reason is the path to knowledge.
Thomas Aquinas
: great scholastic thinker of the 1200's who's writings contained elements of what would become know as humanism; he placed faith above reason but the Church was critical of his teachings.
Mercenary
: a full-time soldier who fights in an army for money.
Marco Polo
: he was a explorer who went on a lot of adventures. He told his stories to the emperor, Kublai Khan.
Johannes Gutenberg
: he was a German printer who developed a printing press that used movable metal type.
Leonardo Da Vinci
:he was a great artist and cut open dead bodies to learn ore about the human body.
Michelangelo
: an influential architect and poet as well as a sculptor and painter
William Shakespeare
: he wrote all kinds of plays: histories, comedies, and tragedies.