The Renaissance
Renaissance Art/Architecture
Writing
Government and Money
Outside of Italy
100

Renaissance means

Rebirth

100

Most famous painter and sculptor of Renaissance

Michelangelo

100

Important invention, spread information everywhere

Printing Press

100

Most powerful family in Italy

Medici

100

Someone impractical, striving for unreachable ideal

Quixotic

200
The Renaissance began

1300s

200

The beautiful church in Rome 

The Sistine Chapel

200

English Playwright, famous plays like Julius Caesar

William Shakespeare 

200
Venice's source of wealth

Trading

200

Carved wooden image printed onto surface

Woodcut

300

Cradle of the Renaissance

Florence, Italy

300

Called a "Renaissance Man"

Leonardo Da Vinci

300

Wrote the first Spanish novel, Don Quixote

Miguel de Cervantes

300

Florence's source of wealth

Banking and wool-making

300

French castle, or large country house

chateau 

400

Someone who studies the humanities

Humanists

400

The great cathedral of Florence

the Duomo

400

A nobleman who frequents the king's court

A courtier

400

The person in charge of the Catholic Church

The pope 

400

Greek painter, lived in Spain 

El Greco

500

Literature from the Greeks and Romans (vocab word)

Classical Literature

500
A painting made in wet plaster

Fresco

500

"Better to be feared than loved" - Source


Machiavelli's The Prince

500

The person in charge of Venice 

Il Doge

500
The country where many of Shakespeare's plays take place

Italy