People
Writer of treatise encouraging a courtier to gain the favor of the prince so that he might influence him positively.
Baldassare Castiglione
This Italian city state gained enormous wealth by controlling trade with the Middle East.
Venice
A painting done on fresh, wet plaster.
Fresco
This was A mother’s chief role in Renaissance Italy.
To raise children
This Italian Renaissance writer stressed that the end justifies the means in his writings.
Niccolo Machiavelli
The head of a powerful merchant family in Renaissance Florence.
Cosimo de’ Medici
The Medici family helped the Renaissance to flourish by this.
They were patrons of the arts.
A soldier who has no allegiance to a particular country, but fights primarily for payment.
Mercenary
Niccolo Machiavelli would rather be this.
Feared
A form of government in which the leader is not a king and certain citizen have the right to vote.
Republic
humanists believe this would stimulate an individual's creative powers.
Education
The growing middle class began to demand material written in this.
The Vernacular
Writer of The Divine Comedy and proponent of writing in the vernacular.
Dante Alighieri
the Medici family came to control Florence through this.
Wealthy/Powerful Merchant Family
Artists of the Northern Renaissance attempted to create realistic art by employing this.
Detailed Painting
A member of the middle class who lived in a city or town.
Burgher
A skilled painter who considered himself to be primarily an inventor
Leonardo DaVinci
Soldiers fighting for this country sacked Rome when they were not payed.
Spain
Artistic techniques used to give the effect of three-dimensional depth to two-dimensional surfaces.
Perspective
Painter of the Northern Renaissance.
Jan van Eyck