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| Renaissance | a period of great cultural and artistic change; rebirth |
| humanism | focusing on human values and what we can achieve in this world |
| patron | a supporter of the arts |
| Lorenzo Medici | Ruler of Florence during the Renaissance and patron of artists |
| Petrarch | Italian Renaissance poet and humanist |
| Michelangelo | Italian Renaissance sculptor, painter, architect and poet. Scultpted the Pieta, and painted the ceiling of the Sistine Chapel |
| Leonardo da Vinci | Italian Renaissance artist, inventor, and scientist. Painted the Mona Lisa. |
| Nicolaus Copernicus | Polish astronomer who discovered the Earth and other planets revolve around the sun |
| Florence | a city in Italy; one of the great centers of Renaissance art |
