Module 14 and 15 Vocabulary 2025

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A period of European history, lasting from about 1300 to 1600, during which was rebirth of art and learning.

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Renaissance

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An intellectual movement in which thinkers studied classical texts and focused on human potential and achievements

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Humanism

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Concerned with worldly rather than spiritual matters

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Secular

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a person who provides financial support for the arts

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patron

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An artistic technique that creates the appearance of three dimensions on a flat surface.

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perspective

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(1475-1564) An Italian sculptor, painter, poet, engineer, and architect. Famous works include the mural on the ceiling of the Sistine Chapel, and the sculpture of the biblical character David.

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Michelangelo

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A well known Italian Renaissance artist, architect, musician, mathematician, engineer, and scientist. Known for the Mona Lisa and The Last Supper.

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Leonardo da Vinci

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an imaginary land described by Thomas More in his book, an ideal place

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Utopia

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English poet and playwright considered one of the greatest writers of the English language; works include Julius Caesar, Macbeth, Romeo and Juliet, and Hamlet.

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William Shakespeare

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The German printer who invented the movable type printing press in Europe about 1440.

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Johann Gutenberg