Renaissance Vocabulary

Renaissance

• the power or right to give orders, make decisions, and enforce obedience.

• was a time of "coming out of the dark". It was a rebirth of education, science, art, literature, music, and a better life for people in general.

• A man of many talents, interests, and abilities.

• Johannes Gutenberg introduced the concept of movable type and the printing press to Europe.

Humanism

• A small independent state ruled by a powerful city. This was the common form of government in Italy during the Renaissance.

• A person, family, or group that supports an artist, paying them for their work.

• to put or change into an improved form or condition

• was a philosophy that all people should strive to be educated and learned in the classical arts, literature, and science. It looked for realism and human emotion in art. It also said that it was okay for people to pursue comfort, riches, and beauty.

Authority

• referred to or measured from the sun's center or appearing as if seen from it

  having or relating to the sun as center

• excluded from the rights of church membership

• the power or right to give orders, make decisions, and enforce obedience.

• principles and procedures for the systematic pursuit of knowledge involving the recognition and formulation of a problem, the collection of data through observation and experiment, and the formulation and testing of hypotheses

City-State

• A small independent state ruled by a powerful city. This was the common form of government in Italy during the Renaissance.

• the power or right to give orders, make decisions, and enforce obedience.

• The Medici family ruled the city of Florence throughout the Renaissance. They had a major influence on the growth of the Italian Renaissance through their patronage of the arts and humanism.

• a person or company involved in wholesale trade, especially one dealing with foreign countries or supplying merchandise to a particular trade.

Merchant

• The Medici family ruled the city of Florence throughout the Renaissance. They had a major influence on the growth of the Italian Renaissance through their patronage of the arts and humanism.

• Johannes Gutenberg introduced the concept of movable type and the printing press to Europe.

• a person or company involved in wholesale trade, especially one dealing with foreign countries or supplying merchandise to a particular trade.

• A person, family, or group that supports an artist, paying them for their work.

Medici Family

• a woman who is interested in and knows a lot about many things

  
  

• relating to, measured from, or as if observed from the earth's center

• excluded from the rights of church membership

• The Medici family ruled the city of Florence throughout the Renaissance. They had a major influence on the growth of the Italian Renaissance through their patronage of the arts and humanism.

Printing Press

• A man of many talents, interests, and abilities.

• Johannes Gutenberg introduced the concept of movable type and the printing press to Europe.

• to put or change into an improved form or condition

• the power or right to give orders, make decisions, and enforce obedience.

Renaissance Man

• A person, family, or group that supports an artist, paying them for their work.

• excluded from the rights of church membership

• A man of many talents, interests, and abilities.

• An indulgence mitigated the severity of one's sin and reduced the punishment one would receive by God for that sin after one's death. The Roman Catholic Church sold indulgences as a way to generate revenue

Renaissance Woman

• a person or company involved in wholesale trade, especially one dealing with foreign countries or supplying merchandise to a particular trade.

• A person, family, or group that supports an artist, paying them for their work.

• the power or right to give orders, make decisions, and enforce obedience.

• a woman who is interested in and knows a lot about many things

Patron

• A person, family, or group that supports an artist, paying them for their work.

• a woman who is interested in and knows a lot about many things

• excluded from the rights of church membership

• A man of many talents, interests, and abilities.