| A | B |
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| Albrecht Dürer | the "German Leonardo" who did engravings etching designs on metal plates with acid |
| Jan and Hubert van Eyck | painters who portrayed townspeople & religious scenes in rich detail - developed oil paint |
| Peter Paul Rubens | painter - blended realistic tradition of Flemish painters with classical themes of Italian Renaissance |
| Desiderius Erasmus | Dutch priest and humanist who used his knowledge of classical languages to produce a new Greek edition of the New Testament |
| vernacular | everyday language of ordinary people |
| Thomas More | English humanist, wrote "Utopia" describin an ideal society where men and women live in peace & harmony |
| uptopian | any ideal society |
| Francois Rabelais | French humanist, monk, physician, Greek scholar and author; wrote "Gargantua and Pantagruel" - the story of 2 gentle giants |
| Shakespeare | English poet and playwright, wrote 37 plays between 1590 -1613 |
| Shakespeare's tragedies | show people crushed by powerful forces or their own weakness |
| Cervantes | wrote Don Quixote which makes fun of medieval chivalry and its romantic ideals |
| Johann Gutenberg | a German who printed a complete edition of the Bible using a printing press |
| changes brought by printing press | cheaper to produce, more people learned to read, readers became more knowledgeable and expanded their minds |
| engraving | artist sketches a design on a metal plate with acid |
