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Renaissance definitions
Humanism: Renaissance humanism was a worldview centered on the nature and importance of humanity, that emerged from the study of Classical antiquity. 
Humanities:From an academic standpoint, the humanities include the study of history, philosophy and religion, modern and ancient languages
Petrarch: considered the father of the Renaissance because his Humanist philosophy
Florence: Florence was a styled city called "new Athens."
Patron:A person or group of people paying for the image
Perspective:a system used by artists for creating the illusion of depth on a flat surface by having parallel lines converge at a vanishing point on the horizon line.
Lenardo Da Vinci:was an Italian Renaissance artist, architect, engineer, and scientist.
Michelangelo: was a sculptor, painter and architect
Baldassare Castiglione: was the author of a widely influential work of the Renaissance, The Book of the Courtier.
Niccolo Machivelli: was an Italian Renaissance political philosopher and statesman and secretary of the Florentine republic.
Vernacular: the local language that the people spoke
Johannes Gutenberg:he introduced printing to Europe
Flanders: A region in the area that roughly corresponds to what is today the northern, Dutch-speaking portion of the European country of Belgium.
Albrecht Durer: was a painter, printmaker, and writer generally regarded as the greatest German Renaissance artist.
Engraving: an intaglio printmaking process in which lines are cut into a metal plate in order to hold the ink.
Erasmus: Dutch humanist who was the greatest scholar of the northern Renaissance, the first editor of the New Testament
Sir Thomas More: was venerated in the Catholic Church as Saint Thomas More.
Utopian: A political or religious communities that possessed clear attributes of perfection.
Shakespeare: was a renaissance writer and thinker.