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| Renaissance | means rebirth- a period in European history that began in the 1300s and ended in the 1600s- period when people became more aware of the world around them and introduced a new way of thinking |
| scholar | specialists in learning during the Renaissance period who became very interested in the ideas of the ancient Greeks and Romans or the classical writings of both ancient cultures |
| classical | expressions of art, literature and philosophy that were relative to that of Ancient Greeks and Romans |
| humanists | people in 1300s that rejected ideas of the Middle Ages that relative to Christianity and embraced classical philosophy that were centered around individual people and their activities during life on Earth, not the after-life in heaven |
| poet laureate | chief poet or story teller |
| realism | lifelike appearance or ancient status |
| perspective | way of showing distance realistically |
| tyrant | leader with no controls on power |
| patrons | wealthy people in society who commissioned or gave money to artists so they could produce artwork |
| Utopia | perfect society and/or the name of Thomas More's Renaissance book about the ideal or perfect society |
| Sir Thomas More | wrote Utopia and was executed for his writing |
| William Shakespeare | English Renaissance playwright- the greatest and most famous playwright of all time |
| Francesco Petrarch | poet who became so famous and favored by the kings of two cities; he was named the poet laureate for both Paris and Rome |
| Leonardo da Vinci | painted the Mona Lisa and revolutionized ideas in Science and the Arts |
| The Mona Lisa | one of the world's best-known paintings by Leonardo da Vinci in which a woman appears to be smiling about something |
| Dante Alighieri | wrote The Divine Comedy |
| The Divine Comedy | a long epic poem by Dante Alighieri written in the 1300s which depicts a tour of life after death with Virgil as a guide |
| Donatello | A Renaissance sculptor who sculpted a bronze statue of King David of Ancient Israel |
| David | a bronze statue of King David of ancient Israel sculpted by Italian Renaissance sculptor Donatello |
| Cosimo de' Medici | a wealthy and powerful merchant and member of the Medici family who controlled trade in Florence, Italy for about 300 years; he was a patron of the arts and hired many of the greatest Renaissance artists to create works of art for his court |
| King Francis I | French monarch and patron to Leonardo da Vinci |
| Albrecht Durer | Northern European painter who produced realistic and imaginative paintings |
| Pieter Brueghel | Northern European painter who produced realistic and imaginative paintings |
| Johann Gutenberg | German who developed the first printing press suing movable type which made printing faster and enabled the books to be more affordable to more people across Europe |
| Florence | Italian city where many Italian Renaissance artists originated in the 1300s |
