Renaissance Vocab

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Perspective in art:

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Development in art during the Renaissance with realistic 3D perspective.

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Medici Family

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Ruled Florence during the Renaissance, became wealthy from banking, spent heavily on art, controlled Florence for about 3 centuries.

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Florence

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An Italian city-state and leading cultural center during the Renaissance.

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Wrote 'The Prince' as a guide for rulers on gaining and maintaining power, advocating any necessary methods.

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Machiavelli

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Blaise Pascal

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French mathematician and scientist who believed faith was necessary as reason alone couldn't satisfy hopes.

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Frescoes

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Paintings on wet plaster walls

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Most versatile Italian painter; works: The Pieta, The Last Supper, Mona Lisa.

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Leonardo da Vinci

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Heliocentric

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The sun is the center of the universe.

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Italian painter, engineer, architect, poet. Famous for The Sistine Chapel and The Statue of David.

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Michelangelo

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Dante Alighieri

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Italian poet known for Divine Comedy