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| Question | Answer |
| Renaissance | terms means rebirth; following the Middle Ages an explosion of creativity in art, writing, that started in northern Italy 1300's-1600's. Artists like Michaelangelo, Leonardo da Vinci were sponsored by wealthy patrons; |
| Key Characteristics of the Renaissance | -renewed interest in the ancient Greeks & Romans -humanism emphasized achievements of man & makes human being not God the center of attention |
| Leonardo da Vinci | a painter, inventor, scientist a good example of a "Renaissance man". He painted the Last Supper and the Mona Lisa |
| Michelangelo | painted the ceiling of the Sistine Chapel and did the sculpture David and the La Pieta |
| secularism | used to describe the Renaissance. comes from the word secular, meaning of this world. A Medieval person was concerned with religion and the next world. A Renaissance person interested in THIS WORLD |
| Black Death | The Black Death was one of the most devastating pandemics in human history, resulting in the deaths of an estimated 75 to 200 million people and peaking in Europe in the years 1346–53 |
| Medici Family | A powerful Italian family of bankers and merchants whose members effectively ruled Florence for much of the 15th century and from 1569 were grand dukes of Tuscany. |
| Raphael | was an Italian painter and architect of the High Renaissance. |
| David | David was, according to the Books of Samuel, the second king of the United Kingdom of Israel, and according to the New Testament. |
| Mona Lisa | The Mona Lisa is a half-length portrait of a woman by the Italian artist Leonardo da Vinci, which has been acclaimed as "the best known, the most visited. |
| St. Peter's Basilica | The Papal Basilica of St. Peter in the Vatican, or simply St. Peter's Basilica, is an Italian Renaissance church located in Vatican City, |
| The prince | 16th-century political treatise by the Italian diplomat and political theorist Niccolò Machiavelli. |
| Florence | capital of Italy’s Tuscany region and birthplace of the Renaissance, is home to masterpieces of art and architecture. |
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