Renaissance and Reformation

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Renaissance

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"rebirth"; following the Middle Ages, a movement that centered on the revival of interest in the classical learning of Greece and Rome

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Secular

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worldly (non-religious)

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Vernacular

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The language of everyday speech in a particular region

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Humanism

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An intellectual movement of the Renaissance based on the study of humanities, which included grammar, rhetoric, poetry, moral philosophy and history

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Patron

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A person who provides financial support for the arts

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Realistic

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Closely resembling real life

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Petrarch

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Poet and author, nicknamed the Father of the Renaissance. He first pushed the revival of the Classics (Greece and Rome) in European literature. Is credited with starting Humanism movement.

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Perspective

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A system for representing objects in three-dimensional (3-D) space on the two-dimensional (2-D) surface of a picture.

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Niccolo Machiavelli

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Wrote The Prince, a guidebook for statesmen and politicians.

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Leonardo da Vinci

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Italian painter, sculptor, engineer, scientist and architect. Famous works include: Mona Lisa, the Last Supper, and Vitruvian Man