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| Leonardo da Vinci | Renaissance artist famous for the Mona Lisa |
| Baldassare Castiglione | Author of The Courtier |
| Humanism | Intellectual movement of the Renaissance that focused on human potential and achievements |
| Secular | Focus on worldly affairs |
| Michelangelo | Renaissance artist famous for painting the ceiling of the Sistene Chapel |
| Machiavelli | Author of the Prince |
| Medici | Powerful family that controlled Florenct |
| Patron | Someone who supports the arts, especially financially |
| Renaissance | Period in history marked by a rebirth of art and learning that began in northern Italy |
| Donatello | Renaissance artist who sculpted the first free standing nube since classical times |
| Raphael | Artist famous for the School of Athens |
| Sofonisba Anguissola | Female artist known for her portraits of prominent people such as Philip II of Spain |
| Masaccio | Artist who rediscovered the technique of perspective |
| Petrarch | Father of Italian Renaissance Humanism; Writer famous for his sonnets about Laura |
| Boccaccio | Author of The Decameron |
| Isabella d'Este | First lady of the Renaissance who won her husband's release after he was taken captive |
| Victoria Collonna | Female writer who wrote sonnets and helped Castiglione get The Courtier published |
| Pieter Bruegel the Elder | Felmish artist who painted Peasant's Wedding |
| Elizabethan Age | Another name for the English Renaissance |
| William Shakespeare | Renown English playwright, perhaps the greatest playwright in history |
| Han Hoblein the Younger | German artist who painted Henry VIII in Wedding Dress |
| Jan van Eyck | Flemish artist who used oil paints and painted the Arnolfini Wedding |
| Albrecht Durer | German painter of the Adoration of the Trinity |
| Visconti and Sforza | Ruling families of Milan |
| Doge | Elected leader of the Republic Venice |
| Council of Ten | The actual ruling body of Venice |
| Savonarola | Dominican monk who seized control of Florence for four years |
| Fresco | Painting on wet plaster |
