Renaissance Vocab and People to Know

Things that are not religious. This increased during the Renaissance

• Secular

• Religious

• Patron

Philosophy popularized during the Renaissance that celebrates human accomplishments and culture.

• Secular

• Humanism

• Catholicism

Someone who supports the arts by paying artists and purchasing their works.

• Patron

• Patriarch

• Pope

• Mona Lisa

• Mrs. Moyers

• The Sistene Chapel

Who painted this?

• Leonardo da Vinci.

• Michaelangelo

• Dontae

Painting accomplishment that came of age during this period and shows sizes relative to distance.

• Perspective

• Usury

• The Prince

The everyday language of a group of people like Italian or German compared to Latin.

• Vernacular

• Greek

• Formal

• Latin

Lending money with interest. This practice by the church led to an increase in secular ideas.

• Usury

• Vernacular

• Loans

Most powerful banking family that became patrons of the arts.

• Medici Family

• The Pope's children

• Da Vinci Family

Painted the Mona Lisa and Last Supper

• Leonardo da Vinci

• William Shakespeare

• Lorenzo de’ Medici