| A | B |
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| Humanities | subjects such as grammar, rhetoric, poetry, and history |
| Petrarch | Florentine who was a humanist, poet, scholar and created the library of Greek and Roman Manuscripts |
| Patron | financial supporter |
| perspective | rules that allowed renaissance artists to creat realistic art |
| Leonardo da Vinci | sketched nature, models and even diseccted corpses to learn more about the human form |
| Michelangelo | "melancholy genius" who created the sculpture David and painted the Sistine Chapel |
| Raphael | Painter who blended Christianity an classical style. Painted The School of Athens |
| Comprehend | to understand; take in |
| emerge | develop; rise from; become known |
| Baldassare Castiglione | author of The Book of the Courtier which described his opinion of the ideal male/female |
| Niccolo Machiavelli | Author of the Prince. Used any means needed to gain goals |
| Donatello | Sculptor who created a life size statue of a soldier on horseback |
| City-State | Controlled by powerful families and domited by wealthy merchant class |
| Humanism | This was the heart of the italian Renaissance and intellectual movement |
| Leon Alberti | Described architecture as a "social art" |
| The School of Athens | Painting by Rapheal the depicted famous philosophers gathered together |
| David | a Sculpture of the biblical shepard who conquered Goliath |
| The Last Supper | A painting by Leonardo da Vinci |
