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The Renaissance - renewal or rebirth of interest in Greek and Roman arts…
The Renaissance
- renewal or rebirth of interest in Greek and Roman arts
Secular
- Related to worldly things
Vernacular
- The everyday language people spoke in a region. Some examples of vernacular languages are Italian, French, and German
Mercenary
- A soldier who fights for money rather than loyalty to a country
Michelangelo
- was an influential architect and poet as well as a sculptor and painter
Patronage
- A person who gives financial support to a person, cause, event, or activity
The Medici's
- The cities wealthiest family: they owned the largest bank in Europe during the 1400's
Marco Polo
- In the 1270s, the merchant Marco Polo, his father, and his uncle left Venice and traveled o China. Their goal was to meet Kublai khan, the mongol emperor of China. After returning from Europe, Polo wrote a book about his adventures all over China
Venice
- Leading Renaissance city, located on the northern coast of the Adriatic Sea in eastern Italy, built on many small canals
Italy
- Independent city - states and home to the birthplace of the Renaissance
Florence
- The first major center of the Renaissance ; it's wealth and central location attracted many artists, sculptors, writers. architects
Urban
- Having to do with a town or city rather than a rural area
Perspective
- A way of showing the relationship between objects in a drawing to give the look of depth or distance
Merchants
- A person who buys or sells commodities for profit; dealer, trader
William Shakespeare
- Was the greatest play writer of all time. He wrote histories, comedies, and tragedies
Currency
- Something, such as coins or paper money, that is used as a medium of exchange ; money in the form of coins or paper
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 1200's who's writings contained elements of what would become known as humanism ; he placed faith above reason but the Church was critical of his teachings
Printing press
- It held individual carved letters that could be arranged to form words and could be used again.
Johannes Gutenberg
- He was a man that developed a printing press that used movable metal type
Leonardo Da Vinci
- He cut open a dead bodies to learn more about the human body, he studies fossils to understand earth's history, and was an inventor and engineer.