A | B |
sketch | a drawing and notes about something |
curious | to wonder about something: how it works |
kite | a bird in the same family as hawks and eagles |
patron | rich and powerful people who had interest in and gave money to sponsor the arts |
guilds | groups made up of the same kind of people who were in the same kind of trade (Artists were in the GUILD of doctors and pharmacists.) |
apprentice | works for a skilled person in order to learn a trade |
pigments | colors |
tempera | colors, or pigments, mixed with egg yolks |
Renaissance | rebirth of thinking in that started in Italy in 1300; a fresh look at the ideas and art of Ancient Rome and Greece |
Florence, Italy | center of the Renaissance thinking in Italy |
mirror writing | Leonardo da Vinci wrote in a strange handwriting; right to left instead of left to right and backwards |