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| made sketches of nature and of models in his studio and dissected corpses to learn how bones and muscles work, his paintings grip people with their realism. He made the Mona Lisa |
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| was a sculptor, engineer, painter, architect and poet |
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| financial supporter of the arts |
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| he studied the works of the great masters but developed his own style of painting that blending christian and classical styles |
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| subjects such as grammar, rhetoric, poetry, and history |
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| spirit or tendency, especially a system of political or social philosophy that rejects all forms of religious faith and worship. |
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| broad knowledge about many things in different fields. deep knowledge/skill in one area. the Greek idea of the well-rounded man. |
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| written by Baldassare Castiglione over the course of many years beginning in 1508 and published in 1528 just before his death. It addresses the constitution of a perfect courtier, and in its last installment, a perfect lady. |
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| these rules allowed Renaissance artists to create realistic art |
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| The point at which receding parallel lines viewed in perspective appear to converge. |
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| Italian sculptor; born Donato di Betto Bardi. He was one of the pioneers of scientific perspective and is known for his lifelike sculptures, including the bronze David |
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| A Roman Catholic basilica in the Vatican City. Built in the 16th century on the site of a structure erected by Constantine on the supposed site of St. Peter's crucifixion, it is the largest Christian church |
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| A chapel in the Vatican, built in the late 15th century by Pope Sixtus IV, containing a painted ceiling and fresco of the Last Judgment by Michelangelo and also frescoes by Botticelli |
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| king of Judah and Israel c.1000–c.962 bc. In the biblical account, he killed the Philistine Goliath and, on Saul's death, became king, making Jerusalem his capital. He is traditionally regarded as the author of the Psalms, although this has been disputed |
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| A painting (now in the Louvre in Paris) executed 1503–06 by Leonardo da Vinci. The sitter was the wife of Francesco del Giocondo; her enigmatic smile has become one of the most famous images in Western art |
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| The Last Supper (Il Cenacolo or L'Ultima Cena) is a 15th century mural painting in Milan created by Leonardo da Vinci |
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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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| everyday language of ordinary people |
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| Italian writer, poet, and humanist. He is most noted for the Decameron (1348–58), a collection of 100 tales told by ten young people living in the country in order to escape the Black Death |
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| A work by Boccaccio, written between 1348 and 1358, containing a hundred tales supposedly told in ten days by a party of ten young people who had fled from the Black Death in Florence. The work was influential on later writers such as Chaucer and Shakespeare |
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| wrote a guide for rulers on how to gain and maintain power. saw himself as enemy of oppression and corruption |
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| was one of the first northern artists to be profoundly affected by the renaissance Italy. became a pioneer in spreading Renaissance ideas to northern Europe |
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| an artist etches a design on a metal plate with acid. the artist then uses the plate to make prints |
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| Flemish painter who was a founder of the Flemish school of painting and who pioneered modern techniques of oil painting (1390-1441) |
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| Flemish painter of landscapes (1525-1569). |
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| was a prolific seventeenth-century Flemish Baroque painter, and a proponent of an extravagant Baroque style that emphasized movement, color, and sensuality. |
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| intellectual movement at the heart of the Italian renaissance |
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| was one of the most important scholars of the age. he wrote texts on a number of subjects and used his knowledge of classical languages to produce a new greek edition of the bible |
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