Renaissance Vocabulary

* rebirth; the revival of art and literature under the influence of classical models in the 14th–16th centuries.

• Reformation

• Renaissance`

• Classical

• Middle Ages

* An independent city, and its surrounding land. which has its own government, completely separate from nearby countries.

• city

• village

• city-state

• incorporated town

* A drawing has a single vanishing point, usually directly opposite the viewer's eye and usually on the horizon line. Used to show depth and realism in paintings.

• Monochromatic

• Scale

• Realism

• One Point Perspective

* Activities, or other things that have no religious or spiritual basis.

• Secular

• Spiritual

• Agnostic

• Bias

A person who copies out documents, especially one employed to do this before printing was invented.

• Copyright

• Analyst

• Scribe

• Author

An imaginary band in the heavens and is divided into 12 constellations or signs each taken for astrological purposes

• Milky Way

• Zodiac

• Black Hole

• Comet

* A system of thought that gave prime importance to human rather than divine or supernatural matters.

• Renaissance

• Reformation

• Calvinism

• Humanism

The activity of buying and selling, especially on a large scale.

• Marketing

• Commerce

• Macroeconomics

• Microeconomics

“of the Middle Ages", in this case, middle means between the Roman empire and the Renaissance

• Dark Ages

• Medieval

• Classical

• Industrial

of or relating to the ancient Greek and Roman world and especially to its literature, art, architecture, or ideals

• Mythology

• Classical

• Medieval

• Modern