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Quarter 1 - World H
Vocabulary for Renaissance for Wakelin and Willis
| Term | Definition |
|---|---|
| Humanism | intellectual movement focused on education and classics |
| Humanities | subjects such as reading, writing, math, poetry, history |
| Petrarch | Florentine humanist, poet and scholar assembled a library of Greek and Roman manuscripst |
| Florence | city state in Italy, home to Medici's |
| Patron | financial supporter |
| Perspective | Painting technique used to make objects appear 3D |
| Leonardo da Vinci | painter/sculptor |
| Baldassare Castiglone | wrote the Book of the Courtier |
| Niccolo Machiavelli | wrote the Prince |
| secularism | non-religious |
| materialism | desire for objects, possessions |
| Johann Gutenberg | German who created printing press with movable type |
| Flanders | Belgium and Netherlands, northern renaissance occurred here |
| Albrecht Durer | "Leonardo of the north", applied painting techniques to engraving |
| engraving | can be used to make multiple prints |
| vernacular | everyday language of ordinary people |
| Erasmus | Dutch priest and humanist, promoted that Bible be written in vernacular |
| Thomas More | social reformer, wrote Utopia about ideal society |
| utopian | ideal but impractical society |
| William Shakespeare | English poet and playwright, used universal themes in everyday settings |
| classicism | interest in Ancient Greece and Rome |