Famous People
Gifted in many fields such as painting, sculpture, architecture, engineering, and invention ... a true "Renaissance Man."
Leonardo da Vinci
Rebirth
The epicenter of the Northern Renaissance.
England
Medieval Art focused on religion whereas Renaissance Art focused on ______?
Individuals/Humans
An Italian painter and sculptor; best known for painting the ceiling of the Sistine Chapel in Rome, Italy.
Michelangelo
The Renaissance wanted to revive these two cultures.
Greek and Roman
Famous English poet and playwright; best known for writing Romeo and Juliet and Hamlet.
William Shakespeare
An intellectual movement that focused more on human potential and achievements
Humanism
Powerful banking family that dominated Florence during the height of the Italian Renaissance.
The Medici Family
This city was the epicenter of the Renaissance.
Florence, Italy
Northern Renaissance writers urged for major reforms in what?
The Church
Art technique that re-creates three dimensions.
Perspective
A person who financially supported artists
Patron
This social group dominated Italian politics during the Renaissance.
Merchants
Thomas More wrote a book about this, which is an imaginary ideal society where greed, war, and conflict do not exist.
Utopia
Concerned with worldly rather than spiritual matters
Secular
An Italian painter whose brushwork made his pictures appear to be alive with personality and human expressions; also named the "official painter" of Venice in 1516.
Titian
This political philosopher wrote about how it's safer for leaders to be feared over loved.
Gutenberg invented this, which caused learning to spread rapidly.
Printing Press
This person's theory is the proven theory that the earth is actually rotating on an axis around the sun and that humans are not the center of the universe.
Copernicus