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| Sfumato | the technique of allowing tones and colors to shade gradually into one another, producing softened outlines or hazy forms. |
| Linear perspective | a type of perspective used by artists in which the relative size, shape, and position of objects are determined by drawn or imagined lines converging at a point on the horizon. |
| Fresco | a painting done rapidly in watercolor on wet plaster on a wall or ceiling, so that the colors penetrate the plaster and become fixed as it dries. |
| Patronage | the support given by a patron |
| Renaissance | marks the period of European history at the close of the Middle Ages and the rise of the Modern world. It represents a cultural rebirth from the 14th through the middle of the 17th centuries. |
| Chiaroscuro | an effect of contrasted light and shadow created by light falling unevenly or from a particular direction on something. |
| The Medici Family | was an Italian banking family, political dynasty and later royal house that first began to gather prominence under Cosimo de' Medici in the Republic of Florence during the first half of the 15th century |
| Humanism | thought attaching prime importance to human rather than divine or supernatural matters. |
| The Bonfire of the Vanities | is a burning of objects condemned by authorities as occasions of sin. |
