| A | B |
|---|
| mercantile | related to commerce or trade |
| Renaissance | A great cultural revival that swept through Europe from the 1300's through the 1500's |
| patron | someone who gives money or other support to a person or group |
| humanism | cultural movement of the Renaissance based on the study of classical works |
| secularism | the view that religion need not be the center of human affairs |
| vernacular | everyday spoken language |
| individualsim | the belief that the individual was more important than the larger community |
| utopia | an imaginary, ideal place |
| engraving | an art form in which the artist etches a design on a metal plate with a needle and acid |
| censor | means to remove material from published works or to prevent its publication |
| proportion | a way of balancing the parts of a design to make it pleasing to the eye |
| linear perspective | a mathematical system for representing three dimensional space on a flat surface |
| sonnet | a poem of 14 lines with a fixed rhyming pattern |
| picaresque | refers to a series of comic episodes usually involving a mischievous character |
