Download Renaissance Unit Vocabulary List Word Definition or Associated

Renaissance Unit Vocabulary List
Word
Renaissance
Humanism
Definition or Associated
Work
“Rebirth” of Classical
(Greek & Roman)
learning
Movement that focused
& glorified HUMANS
Silk Road
Trade route between
Europe & China
“Renaissance Person who is wellMan” (440)
rounded (good at a lot of
things)
Patrons
Person who supported
artists
Perspective
Drawing in 3D
Vernacular
Marco Polo
Patrician
Plebeian
Urban
Rural
Native language
Italian trader who wrote
about his journeys to
China
Member of Italy’s upper
class
Member of Italy’s lower
class
In or related to cities
In or related to farms &
the countryside
Sentence/Picture
“Renaissance man” –
painter, inventor, scientist
Mona Lisa, Last Supper
Michelangelo Sculptor, painter
Sistine Chapel, David
Raphael
Painter
School of Athens,
Wedding of the Virgin
Donatello
Early Renaissance
sculptor
“sissy” David
William
English writer who wrote
Shakespeare Hamlet, Othello, &
Romeo and Juliet
Sir Thomas
English writer who wrote
More
Utopia
Leonardo da
Vinci
Niccolo
Machiavelli
Dante
Alighieri
Miguel
Cervantes
Filippo
Brunelleschi
Italian writer who wrote
The Prince (“The ends
justify the means”)
Italian writer who wrote
The Divine Comedy –
Inferno, Purgatorio, &
Paradiso
Spanish writer who wrote
Don Quixote
Architect who
constructed the Duomo in
the Cathedral of Florence
Johannes
Gutenberg
Invented printing press &
movable type
Printing press Machine that allowed for
the mass-creation of
books & flyers
Ambrose Pare French surgeon who used
bandages & thread to
close wounds/injuries