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Renaissance
Renaissance Terms
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10th Grade
11/21/2013

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Medici Family
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was a powerful family in Florence Italy that was said to have funded many Renaissance artists
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Patrons
Definition
are customers who buy products.
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Individualism
Definition
Individual over the group. Uniqueness emphasized.
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Secularism
Definition
worldly pleasures, focus on material things and not so worried about getting to heaven.
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Classicism
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Ancient Greece & Rome Greek and Roman art.
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Skepticism
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Doubting, questioning, challenging authority (church)
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Humanism
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focus on importance of individuals & emotions.
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Leonardo DaVinci
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“The True Renaissance Man” because he painted the Mona Lisa, was an engineer and writer
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Michelangelo
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Renaissance artists whose famous works were The David and The Painting of Sistine Chapel
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Petrarch
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Poet- “The Father of Humanism” – wrote love sonnets about Laura
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Vernacular
Definition
the language of the people
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