Renaissance Vocabulary

Period of rebirth of art and literature in Europe lasting from 1300-1600

• Renaissance

• Middle Ages

• Pre-Columbian

• Neolithic Revolution

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

• secularism

• humanism

• perspective

• fresco

Not religious or holy; pertaining to worldly things

• secular

• patron

• perspective

• vernacular

People who financially support the arts

• Renaissance Man

• patron

• fresco

Aristocratic Italian family of powerful merchants and bankers who dominated in Florence in the 15th century; they were also patrons of the arts

• Johann Gutenberg

• Miguel de Cervantes

• Dante Alighieri

• The Medicis

A cultured man of the Renaissance who was knowledgeable, educated, or proficient in a wide range of fields

• humanism

• vernacular

• Renaissance Man

• perspective

Italian painter, engineer, sculptor & inventor; his famous works include the Mona Lisa, and the Last Supper

• Michelangelo

• Leonardo Da Vinci

• William Shakespeare

• Niccolo Machiavelli

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

• fresco

• perspective

• vernacular

• secular

Italian painter, sculptor, architect, whose most famous works include the mural on the ceiling of the Sistine Chapel & the marble sculpture of the David

• Leonardo Da Vinci

• Michelangelo

• Niccolo Machiavelli

• Miguel de Cervantes

Florentine statesman & political theorist who proposed that in order for rulers to maintain power, the ruler may ignore what is morally right & wrong; believing the "end will justify the means" in gaining & maintaining political power

• Johann Gutenberg

• Michelangelo

• Niccolo Machiavelli

• Dante Alighieri