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The Renaissance

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The Renaissance

A cultural movement, beginning in Italy and spreading throughout Europe, from the14th to the 17th century.

Florence

A city in central Italy, on the Arno River: capital of the former grand duchy of Tuscany; the city where the Renaissance began.

Medici

Poet and patron of the arts and literature: ruler of Florence 1478.

Leonardo da Vinci

1452–1519, Italian painter, sculptor, architect, musician, engineer, mathematician, and scientist.

humanism

Any system or mode of thought or action in which human interests, values, and dignity predominate.

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scholarship

Learning; knowledge acquired by study; the academic attainments of a scholar.

Botticelli

Italian painter.

Michelangelo

Italian sculptor, painter, architect, and poet.

Machiavelli

Italian statesman, political philosopher, and author.

Sir Thomas More

English writer on religious subjects.

Raphael

Italian painter.

aesthetic

Pertaining to a sense of the beautiful or to the science of aesthetics.

Filippo Brunelleschi

Italian architect; engineered the dome of Florence Cathedral.

St. Peter's Basilica

A Late Renaissance church located within the Vatican City, the rebuilding of which was an architectural feat, combining the skills of Bramante, Michelangelo, Raphael, Sangallo and Maderno.

polymath

A person of great learning in several fields of study; polyhistor.

scientific method

A method of research in which a problem is identified, relevant data are gathered, a hypothesis is formulated from these data, and the hypothesis is empirically tested; developed during the Renaissance.

Erasmus

Dutch humanist, scholar, theologian, and writer.

Cimabue

Italian painter and mosaicist.

Giotto

Florentine painter, sculptor, and architect.

sculpture

The art of carving, modeling, welding, or otherwise producing figurative or abstract works of art in three dimensions, as in relief, intaglio, or in the round.

architecture

The profession of designing buildings, open areas, communities, and other artificial constructions and environments, usually with some regard to aesthetic effect.