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Renaissance Crosswor

Renaissance Crossword Review - Extra Credit.

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GUTENBERG Invented the printing press
TRADE Italy received wealth and new ideas from other lands because they dominated this.
DURER Created wood block print to make art more accessible to the public
ITALY Birthplace of the Renaissance
CONSTANTINOPLE When this city fell, Christian scholars fled to Italy.
REBIRTH Renaissance means this
ANATOMY Studies of this allowed for more accurate representations of human body structure
DA VINCI Dissected bodies to study anatomy to create more realistic art
PERSPECTIVE Allowed artists to create the illusion of depth - foreground and background
MACHIAVELLI An advisor to kings who wrote The Prince as a manual for gaining power, making him the first modern Western political scientist
ERASMUS A father of Humanism, his In Praise of Folly criticized the Church and called on people to focus on human agency and free will
CHIAROSCURO Technique that allowed artists to represent shadows and dark and light
GRECO-ROMAN The knowledge of the civilizations became the basis of the Renaissance
GALILEO Improved the telescope allowing for astronomy to flourish and creating doubt in Church teachings
CATHOLIC Power of this Church began to be challenged
REFORMATION This period/change in Europe resulted from the decline of the Church
SHAKESPEARE Added more than 3000 words to the English language and was a master of sonnets and plays
COPERNICUS Created heliocentric (sun-centered) model of the universe
NUDITY Very prominent in Renaissance art and sculpture as it celebrated the beauty of the human body
HUMANISM The study that emphasized human agency and actions
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