Renaissance And Reformation Vocabulary

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Angelican

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England and its people or culture
The church of England or of any other church in the communion

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Apprentice

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A person under legal agreement to work a specific time for a skilled craftsman in a crafts or trade for instruction and support. A person who is requiring a trade, craft, or skill under pecified conditions, usu. as a member of a labor union. Novice/Learner, to work or train as such.

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Artisan

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A worker in a skilled trade, craftsman

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Baptist

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A member of the protestant denomination thinking the ceremony of admittance to Christ should only been given to believers after a confession of faith and by immersion, not sprinklling

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Basilica

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A royal palace. In rom, a rectangular building with a broad nave ending in an aspe with aisles used as a courtroom or public hall or a christian church built the same way.

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Calvinist

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A believer of the doctrines that the elect are predestined to salvation. A set of religious practices and beliefs on the teachings with aste on morality

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Chiaroscuro

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light or shade in a painting or drawling treated so as to produce the illusion of the depth, a dramatic effect, etc. or a painting of this type

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Ex communicate

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To exclude form the rights or priviledges of a church, cutting off from a church, to damn to hell

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Flying Buttress

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A buttress connected with a wall at some distance from it by an arch or part of an arch to resist outward pressure

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Fresco

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The art of painting with water colors on wet plaster

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Grace

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beauty, charm, form, attractive quality, a sense of what is right and wrong, mercy, a afovor shown by granting a delay of payment of an obligation, a title of distinction, unmerited love and facor of god to us, to dignify

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Heresy

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A religious belief in oppostion to an orthodox church's doctrine, or any such opinoin

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Humanism

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any system of thoughtor action on the nature, intrests, ideals of humanity. A modern nontheistic rationalist movement that holds that humanity is capable of self fulfilment, ethical conduct, without recuse to supernaturalism

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Indulgances

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paying for repenting of sins

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inquire

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to seek information, to ask questions, to carry out investigation

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Inspiration

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In haling an idea or influence to carry something out

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Latin

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Italic language of ancient latnuim

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Lute

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A stringed instrument with a pear shpaed body, vaulted back, fretted finger board, and a dead with tuning pegs

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Lollard

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A follower of Wycliffe, as 14th/15th Century preachers of England or Scotsland

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Machiavelliam

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suggesting principals of conduct marked by cunning, duplicity, or bad faith

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Mural

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wall, applied to integral with a wall or ceiling surface

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Muse

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poet, state of dreaminess.
To become absorbed in thought, wonder, marvel, to think or say reflectively

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Patron

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a person chosen, named, and honored, as a guardian supporter of an artist, wrtier, social function, or institution. A slave master who has freed his slave but kept some rights over it. A proprietor of an establishment (inn)

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Polyphony

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Style of musical composition with 2 or more simultaneious but independent melodic lines

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Predestination

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Doctrine that God with his foreknowing guides those who are destined for heaven

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Reform

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to change a form by removal of faults of abuses to end evil to change for the better

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Renaissance

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A transition in Europe from the 14th - 17th Centuries in Italy with the human revival of classic influence in arts literature, science, architecture, rebirth, revival

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Sacrament

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A christian rite ordained by Christ to be a means of divine grace or spiritual reality

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Sculpture

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action of carving, modeling, or welding plastic or materials into 3D art

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Secularism

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indifferance to or rejection of religion

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Simony

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buying or selling a church office

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Single Point Perspective

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an art technique invented in the renaissance to presume a point in which all else moves towards the vanishing points

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Theocracy

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government of immediate divine guidence or by officals who are divinely guided

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Tithe

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to pay 1/10 of one's income to church

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Usury

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intrest, lending of $ with an intrest rate for its use

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Utopian

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being perfect, impossibly ideal confiction, especially in a social organization, visionary