Renaissance Vocab and People to Know

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Things that are not religious. This increased during the Renaissance

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Secular

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Philosophy popularized during the Renaissance that celebrates human accomplishments and culture.

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Humanism

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Someone who supports the arts by paying artists and purchasing their works.

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Patron

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Mona Lisa

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Who painted this?

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Leonardo da Vinci.

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Painting accomplishment that came of age during this period and shows sizes relative to distance.

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Perspective

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The everyday language of a group of people like Italian or German compared to Latin.

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Vernacular

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Lending money with interest. This practice by the church led to an increase in secular ideas.

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Usury

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Most powerful banking family that became patrons of the arts.

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Medici Family

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Painted the Mona Lisa and Last Supper

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Leonardo da Vinci