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Renaissance
| Term | Definition |
|---|---|
| Florence | Italian Renaissance city-state and home of the Florence cathedral-birthplace of the Renaissance |
| Milan | Italian Renaissance city-state and competed with Florence and Venice |
| Venice | Italian Renaissance city-state and completed with Florence and Milan |
| Medici family | provided money and financial support for emerging artists |
| Michelangelo | Famous artist and sculptor-Sistine Chapel and statue-"David" |
| Botticelli | Italian painter that received financial support from the Medici family |
| Michiavelli | An Italian philosopher from Florence |
| Copernicus | Scientific evidence that the Earth orbits the sun |
| Renaissance | a time period meaning "rebirth" of artistic expression and knowledge |
| Kepler | astronomer that discovered ideas of planetary motion |
| Galileo | astronomer that invented a telescope and provided evidence that the sun is the center of the universe |
| Newton | scientist that discovered the laws of motion (gravity) |
| St. Peter's Basilica | Renaissance church located in Vatican City |
| Marco Polo | Wrote a book about his journey to China and caused many people to want to go to China to buy goods |
| secular | worldly rather than religious |
| humanist | emphasis on the individual |
| perspective | artistic method that makes paintings or drawings to look three dimensional |
| vernacular | common language of the people |
| Leonardo da Vinci | known as the "Renaissance Man" and sculptor, inventor, mathematician, architect |