Renaissance Vocabulary

The appearance of distance or depth on a flat surface as in a painting:

• proportion

• portrait

• perspective

• prism

A religious movement of the 16th century that began as an attempt to reform the Roman Catholic Church and resulted in the creation of Protestant churches.

• Secularism

• Renaissance

• Mercantilism

• Reformation

Someone who learns a trade from a skilled worker/artist.

• apprentice

• artisan

• patron

• disciple

A person who supports the arts or other activities by supplying money for them:

• patron

• perspective

• pirate

• proportion

Relating to earthly life rather than to religion or spiritual matters:

• satire

• securities

• tragedy

• secular

An amusing play with a happy ending:

• documentary

• comedy

• drama

• tragedy

A serious play with a sad ending:

• documentary

• comedy

• drama

• tragedy

A work that uses sharp humor to attack people or society:

• satire

• tragedy

• secular

• comedy

In the Roman Catholic Church, pardon for sins committed during a person's lifetime

• Indulgences

• Vernacular

• Individualism

• Reformation

A religious movement of the 16th century that began as an attempt to reform the Roman Catholic Church and resulted in the creation of Protestant churches.

• Secularism

• Renaissance

• Mercantilism

• Reformation