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Chapter 15 Renaissan
| Question | Answer |
|---|---|
| A period of renewed interest and remarkable developments in art, literature, science, and learning. | Renaissance |
| an intellectual movement during the Renaissance that focused on the study of worldly subjects, such as poetry and philosophy, and on human potential and achievements. | Humanism |
| Having to do with worldly,as opposed to religious, maters. | secular |
| Wrote a book called The Courtier. Published in 1528, it describes how the perfect Renaissance gentleman-and gentlewomen-should act. | Baldassare Castiglione |
| Was a Political philosopher and statesman whose experience with violent politics of the time influenced his opinions about how governments should rule, and he set down those ideas in a book called The Prince. | Niccolo Machiavelli |
| A well educated poet who came from a wealthy and powerful family whom ruled the city-supported the arts. They gave huge sums of money to artists, intellectuals, and musicians. | Lorenzo de Medici |
| Was a highly talented painter; but he was also a write, an inventor, an architect, an engineer, a mathematician, a musician, and a philosopher: Two of his well known paintings,The Last Supper and The Mona Lisa. | Leonardo de Vinci |
| Won a fame with his Pietà , a sculpture of Mary, the mother of Jesus, holding her son after his death. He soon amazed Rome again with his 13-foot marble Statue of David. He is also famous for his artwork on the ceiling of the Sistine Chapel in Rome. | Michelangelo Buonarroti |
| Was a renowned painter and an accomplished architect. His most famous work, The School of Athens, is a fresco, a painting made on fresh, moist plaster. | Raphael |
| cast the Letters of the alphabet onto metal plates and locked those plates into a wooden press. This movable type, which has its roots in China and Korea, resulted in one of the most dramatic upheavals the world has ever known. | Johannes Gutenberg |
| A leading Christian humanist, who was a priest in what is now the Netherlands, Erasmus wrote extensively about the need for a pure and simple Christian life. | Desiderius Erasmus |
| He was famous Humanist and English statesman. His best-known humanist work is the novel Utopia. His book contains both a criticism of English Government and society and a vision of a perfect, but nonexistent society based on reason. | Sir Thomas More |
| William Shakespeare | |
| Christine de Pisan | |
| Albrecht Durer | |
| Jan Van Eyck |
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