The Renaissance Vocabulary Words – Flashcards
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apothecary
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druggist or pharmacist
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apprentice
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someone who agrees to live with and work for another for some time in return for instruction in a trade
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basilica
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Christian church in shape of a cross
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chateau
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French castle or large country house
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diplomat
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one who represents a government in its relationships with other governments
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fresco
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painting made on fresh. moist plaster with color pigments dissolved in water
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galley
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large flat bottomed ship propelled by sails and oars
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infallable
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incapable of error
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lagoon
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shallow body of water
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mason
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person who builds or works with brick
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patron
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wealthy person who supports an artist
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perspective
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technique that allows an artist to show objects as they appear at various distances from the viewer
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prior
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person in charge of a monastery
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quarry
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to obtain stone from a pit by cutting, digging, or blasting it
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Renaissance man
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one who is highly skilled and has broad interests in mnay or all of the arts and sciences
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republic
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system of government in which voters elect officials to run the governement and make laws
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rhetoric
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the art of using words effectively in speaking or writing
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Italian Renaissance
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14th Mid centruy
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Florence
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country where the Renaissance started
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Cities that flourished during the Renaissance
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Venice, Rome, and Florence
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Renaissance
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period of time which in history when a rediscovery of classical learning led to great achievements.
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French word renaissance
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rebirth reborn
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Inspired The Renaissance
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Roman & Greek empires
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Johannes Gutenberg
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inventor of the first printing press
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Florence
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cradle of the Reanaissance
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Medici
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powerful family of the Renaissance
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Santa Maria de Fiore, the duomo
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cathedral located in the middle of Florence
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St. Peter's Basilica
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most important church in Rome
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Raphael
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painted frescos in the papal apartments
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Venice
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built on 100 islands
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Republic
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form of government of Venice
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title of Ruler of Venice
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the doge (leader)
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Baldassare Castiglione
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wrote the Courier
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Niccolo Machiavelli
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diplomat of Florence
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William Shakespeare
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most important artist of the English renaissance
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Miguel Cervantes
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most important writer of the Spanish Renaissance
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Spanish literary masterpiece
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Don Quijote de La mancha
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Renaissance begins in Italy because...
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surrounded by water, good place for trading, Italy center of Roman Empire
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Change of artist status
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making money for their paintings, patrons-wealthy people to support them
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Artists of Italian renaissance
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Raphael, Leonardo Da Vinci, Michelangelo
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made Florence powerful
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wool & banking
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Contributions from a family to the reanaissance
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build cathedrals, comissioned artists
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Pope the the Catholic Church
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successors of St. Peter
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Venice became wealthy because...
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canals that allowed trading
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scholars
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group of people that relocated to help florish Venice
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disciplines of art Leonardo followed
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sculptor, architect, painter
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La Mona Lisa & The Last Supper
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Two paintings of Leonardo da Vinci
