Renaissance Vocabulary

Buying and selling of goods and services

• Commerce

• Contrapposto

• Diffusion

• Barter

Depicting the body twisted into different positions

• Perspective

• Commerce

• Indulgence

• Contrapposto

To exclude a person from a church or religious community

• Exodus

• Excommunicate

• Outcast

• Moksha

Theory that places the sun at the center of the Solar System

• Concentric

• Geocentric

• Heliocentric

• Egocentric

A belief rejected by official Church doctrine

• Heliocentric

• Humanism

• Heresy

• Hoplite

A cultural movement focusing on Greco-Roman works and emphasizing the potential of the individual

• Humanism

• Socialism

• Heresy

• Mercantalism

A cancellation of punishment for sin

• Heresy

• Indulgence

• Humanism

• Commerce

Artistic technique that creates an illusion of space and distance (or depth) on a flat surface

• Indulgence

• Humanism

• Contrapposto

• Perspective

Religious ideology that God long ago determined who would go to heaven (gain salvation)

• Humanism

• Indulgence

• Predestination

• Perspective

Members of Western Christian faith that are separate from the Roman Catholic Church

• Protestant

• Predestination

• Indulgence

• Polytheism