Renaissance Vocabulary

The period of "Rebirth" after the Middle Ages. A movement that centered on the revival of interest in the classical learning of the Greek and Roman empires.

• Individualism

• Secularism

• Humanism

• Renaissance

An intellectual movement during the renaissance in which thinkers studied classical texts and focused on human potential and achievements.

• Renaissance

• Humanism

• Individualism

• Secularism

Giving priority to one's own goals over the group goals and defining one's identity in terms of personal attributes rather than group identifications.

• Humanism

• Secularism

• Individualism

• Renaissance

The use of parallel lines that appear to converge with distance. It shows how artists make images appear farther away.

• Linear Perspective

• Shading

• Two-dimensional

• Oil Painting

The language or dialect spoken by the ordinary people of a particular country or region. The everyday language of people.

• Dual Perspective

• Linear Perspective

• Foreign Language

• Vernacular

The theory that the Sun is the center of the Universe.

• Heliocentric Theory

• Geocentric theory

• Pethagarian Theory

• The Theory of Relativity

The theory that religion does not need to be the center of human life.

• Geocentrism

• Secularism

• Separationism

• Heliocentrism

The most important influence of European life before the Renaissance.

• The Catholic Church

• The Greek Empire

• The Roman Empire

• The Greek and Roman Empires

A well-known Italian Renaissance artist, architect, musician, mathematician, engineer, and scientist. He was called a "Renaissance Man" and painted the Mona Lisa.

• Michelangelo

• Copernicus

• Galileo

• Leonardo da Vinci

A well-known English poet and dramatist considered to be one of the greatest English writers of all time.

• C.S. Lewis

• Shakespeare

• Donatello

• Jan van Eyck