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| proportion | a way of balancing the parts of a design to make it a pleasing whole |
| Filippo Brunelleschi | Renaissance architect and discoverer of linear perspective |
| linear perspective | a mathematical system for representing three-dimensional space on a flat surface |
| Cathedral of Santa Maria del Fiore | included famous dome designed by Filippo Brunelleschi and is considered a masterpiece of simple form |
| "Renaissance Man" | person who has many different kinds of talent |
| Leonardo da Vinci | most versatile artist of the Renaissance |
| Mona Lisa | famous Renaissance painting by da Vinci in which he used a technique called sfumato |
| sfumato | painting technique that means smokey and softens outlines and shadows to produce an effect of distance |
| Michelangelo Buonarroti | Renaissance painter, sculptor, and architect and poet. Best known for his paintings on the Sistine Chapel |
| The Last Judgment | famous painting on the rear wall of the Sistine Chapel |
| Elizabeth I | Queen of England during the Renaissance period |
| Dante Alighieri | although he lived during the Middle Ages his writing such as The Divine Comedy was written in the Italian vernacular |
| Francesco Petrarch | considered to be the founder of Renaissance humanism because he sought to bring together ideas of pagan classical culture and Christianity |
| William Shakespeare | the world's best-know playwright including Romeo and Juliet and Hamlet |
| sonnet | poem of 14 lines with a fixed rhyming pattern |
| Miguel de Cervantes | Spanish author famous for writing Don Quixote |
| picaresque | a series of comic episodes usually involving a mischievous character |
