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| humanities | the subjects taught in ancient Greek and Roman schools |
| perspective | a new artistic technique in which artists made a pictue appear three dimensional by making objects smaller so that they appeared distant |
| Medici family | an important family that lived in Florence beginning as bankers and eventually controlling the entire city during the Renaissance period |
| Francesco Petrarch | an early Renaissance humanist of Florence who found and assembled a library of Greek and Roman manuscripts |
| Raphael | a great Italian artist who studied Leonardo and Michelangelo and is best known for his paintings of the madonna |
| patron | financial supporter |
| humanism | an intellectual movement of the Renaissance that was based on the study of classical culture and focused on worldly subjects rather than on the religious issues of the medieval period |
| Leonardo da Vinci | Made sketches of nature and of models Dissected corpses to learn how the human body worked Masterpieces include Mona Lisa and The Last Supper Studied botany anatomy optics music architecture and engineering Made sketches for flying machines and undersea boats |
| Michelangelo | a talented sculptor engineer painter architect and poet he sculpted the Pieta and statue of David painted huge mural to decorate the ceiling of the Sistine Chapel in Rome and designed the dome for St Peter’s Cathedral in Rome |
| Niccolo Machiavelli | wrote a handbook called The Prince that instructed rulers how to gain and maintain power |
| Florence | an Italian city that came to symbolize the energy and brilliance of the Italian Renaissance as many gifted artists scholars and scientists lived here |
| Baldassarre Castiglione | an Italian courtier, diplomat, and soldier known for writing "The Book of the Courtier" |
