Renaissance Vocab 2023

A Catholic church in Vatican City, Italy. Its ceiling was painted by Michelangelo.

• Renaissance

• Sistine Chapel

• Venice, Italy

• Medici

Realism

• belief in the worth of the individual

• artistic representation that aims for accuracy

• a person who supports artists financially

• concerned with wordly rather than spiritual

Renaissance authors geban to write in their own version of language; this made literature more important and popular

• dialect

• Sistine Chapel

• Protestant Reformation

• Marco Polo

Banking family who controlled Florence for almost 300 years

• Medici

• Marco Polo

• Florence

• Sistine Chapel

A religious movement of the 16th century that began as an attempt to reform the RCC and resulted in the creation of Protestant Churches

• Martin Luther

• Renaissance

• Humanism

• Protestant Reformation

Johann Gutenberg

• Used telescope to study the stars

• A religious movement that created Protestant Churches

• A Catholic church painted by Michelangelo

• Invented the printing press

A series of steps followed to solve problems: collecting data, formulating a hypothesis, testing and stating conclusions

• Scientific Method

• Scientific Revolution

• Humanism

• Renaissance

An artistic technique that creates the appearance of 3 dimensions on a flat surface

• secular

• humanism

• perspective

• patron

Florence

• A person who supports artists especially financially

• concerned with worldly rather than spiritual matters

• a technique that creates the appearance of 3 dimensions

• birthplace of the Renaissance

Italian astronomer and mathematician who was the first to use a telescope to study the stars

• Leonardo da Vinci

• Johann Gutenberg

• Martin Luther

• Galileo