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| The city of Florence is often called: |
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| "cradle of the Renaissance" |
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| Florence was home to some of the greastest: |
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| Center of city's religious life: |
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| Duomo (cathedral) of Santa Maria del Fiore |
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| City government headquarters: |
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| Palazzo Vecchio (Old Palace) |
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| Florence's ruling family: |
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| Home of Italy's most famous poet: |
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| Casa di Danta (Dante's House) |
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| During Renaissance times, Florence was the: |
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| Banking center of Europe. |
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| The gold coins of Florence: |
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| People trade their coins for: |
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| Why was the Palazzo Vecchio built to look like a fortress or castle? |
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| To awe people with their power & have a place of safety. |
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| How did the Medicis aquire their wealth? |
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| A mechanical device used to lift people or heavy objects. |
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| Renaissance architects studied: |
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| Renaissance painter were first to use techniques of: |
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| Perspective painting technique: |
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| Create the apperance of depth. |
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| Renaissance sculptors were influenced by: |
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| Humanist interest in realism. |
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| First life-size nude statue since classical times: |
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| Relating to earthly life rather than to religion or spiritual matters. |
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| Renaissance writers were interested in: |
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| Individual experience & the world around them. |
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| During the Renaissance, scientist began to: |
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| The movement of blood through the body. |
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| He studied probability, the science of chance. |
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| An important family of bankers in Florence, Italy who controlled Florence and used their wealth to support artists and scientists. |
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| A sculptor, used lifelike styles in sculpting, made statue of David. |
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| An Italian artist, scientist & inventor. He learned about the effects of the moon on the earth's tides. 1st person to draw maps from a bird's eye view (above ground). |
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| The main bridge in Florence and popular with markets, trade, and changes. |
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| A river that runs through Florence. |
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| An Italian painter, sculptor, and architect of the fifteenth and sixteenth centuries. Michelangelo sculpted the David and designed the famous dome. He is considered one of the greatest artists of all time. |
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| An early renaissance painter famous for Adoration of the Magi painting. |
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| A Renaissance architect who invented the hoist and solved the problem of building a dome on the Duomo di Santa Maria del Fiore |
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| A Florentine statesman and historian; famous for the book called "The Prince". |
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| Invented the telescope to study space & did many important experiments concerning gravity. |
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| An Italian poet famous for writing the Divine Comedy that describes a journey through hell and purgatory and paradise guided by Virgil and his idealized Beatrice. |
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| Advised rulers to make their states strong by doing what worke best, rathern than by being good or moral. In his view, the end or purpose, justified the means. He wrote that rulers should be feared rathern than loved. |
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