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Renaissance
Tristan Figueroa
| Term | Definition |
|---|---|
| Humanism | a system of thought criticized as being centered on the notion of the rational, autonomous self and ignoring the unintegrated and conditioned nature of the individual. |
| Classical | relating to ancient Greek or Latin literature, art, or culture. |
| Renaissance | the revival of art and literature under the influence of classical models in the 14th–16th centuries. |
| Leonardo da Vinci | An artist known for painting the Mona Lisa. |
| Michelangelo | was a sculptor, painter and architect widely considered to be one of the greatest artists of the Renaissance. |
| Perspective | the art of drawing solid objects on a two-dimensional surface so as to give the right impression of their height, width, depth, and position in relation to each other when viewed from a particular point. |
| Secular | denoting attitudes, activities, or other things that have no religious or spiritual basis |
| Vernacular | the language or dialect spoken by the ordinary people in a particular country or region. |
| Technique | a way of carrying out a particular task, especially the execution or performance of an artistic work or a scientific procedure. |
| Cathedral | the principal church of a diocese, with which the bishop is officially associated. |
| Medici | an Italian family of bankers, merchants, and rulers of Florence and Tuscany. |
| Patron | the person or group of people paying for the image. |
| Borgia | escendants of a noble line, originally from Valencia, Spain, that established roots in Italy and became prominent in ecclesiastical and political affairs in the 1400s and 1500s. |
| Merchant | a person or company involved in wholesale trade, especially one dealing with foreign countries or supplying merchandise to a particular trade. |
| Scholar | a specialist in a particular branch of study, especially the humanities; a distinguished academic. |
| Last supper | the final meal shared by Jesus and his disciples in an upper room in Jerusalem, the occasion of the institution of the Eucharist. |
| William Shakespeare | was an English playwright, poet and actor |
| Elizabethan age | the time period associated with the reign of Queen Elizabeth I. |
| Printing Press | a device that allows for the mass production of uniform printed matter, mainly text in the form of books, pamphlets and newspapers. |
| Johann Gutenberg | a German inventor, printer, publisher, and goldsmith who introduced printing to Europe |