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Renaissance Vocab List QUIZ DATE:______________________________ engraving art form in which an artist etches a design on a metal plate with acid and then uses the plate to make multiple prints Florence a city in the Tuscany region of northern Italy that was the center of the Italian Renaissance Flanders a region that included parts of present day northern France, Belgium, and the Netherlands; was an important industrial and financial center of northern Europe during the Middle Ages and Renaissance humanism an intellectual movement at the heart of the Renaissance that focused on education and the classics patron a person who provides financial support for the arts utopian idealistic or visionary, usually used to describe a perfect society perspective artistic technique used to give paintings and drawings a three-dimensional effect humanities Rome study of subjects such as grammar, rhetoric, poetry, and history that were taught in ancient Greece and vernacular everyday language of ordinary people Petrarch Florentine humanist, poet, and scholar who assembled a library of Greek and Roman manuscripts to encourage learning Raphael painter; blended Christian and classical styles; famous works include The School of Athens and his portrayals of the Madonna Michelangelo artist; created sculpture of David and painted the ceiling of the Sistine Chapel Albrecht Durer applied painting techniques to engraving; spread Renaissance ideas in northern Europe Leonardo Da Vinci artist, scientist, and inventor best known for the Mona Lisa and The Last Supper and sketches of inventions such as flying machines Shakespeare the leading English language poet and playwright of the Renaissance Baldassare Castiglione wrote the Book of the Courtier describing the manners and qualities aristocratic men and women should display Johann Gutenberg in 1455, printed a complete Bible on a printing press with movable type Niccolo Machiavelli wrote The Prince, describing how to rule in an age of ruthless power politics Erasmus an important religious scholar; called for the translation of the Bible into the vernacular Thomas More wrote Utopia, which describes an ideal and peaceful society in which people live in peace, all are educated, and crime is eliminated