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| Humanism | an outlook or system of thought attaching prime importance to human rather than divine |
| Secular | denoting attitudes, activities, or other things that have no religious or spiritual basis. |
| patron | a person who gives financial or other support to a person (particularly an artist in this time period) |
| Mona Lisa | half-length portrait painting by the Italian artist Leonardo da Vinci. It is considered an archetypal masterpiece of the Italian Renaissance, |
| Perspective | the art of drawing solid objects on a two-dimensional surface so as to give the right impression of their height, width, depth, and position in relation to each other when viewed from a particular point |
| The Prince | a 16th-century political treatise by the Italian diplomat and political theorist Niccolò Machiavelli. |
| Vernacular | the language or dialect spoken by the ordinary people in a particular country or region. |
| Renaissance | he revival of art and literature under the influence of classical models in the 14th–16th centuries |
