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Renaissance |
a period in time when philosophical and artistic movement flourished between 1300-1600 |
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humanists |
People who specialized in the study of the humanities the study of grammar, rhetoric, history and poetry |
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perspective |
a painting technique that made distant objects smaller than those in the foreground and by arranging objects in a certain way create the illusion of depth on a flat canvas. |
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Niccolo Machiavelli |
considered one of the most influential political writers of the Renaissance he wrote The Prince |
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Leonardo da Vinci |
painter, sculptor, engineer, architect and scientist The Last Supper and Mona Lisa |
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Michelangelo |
master of art, Sistine Chapel ceiling and David sculpture |
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Johannes Gutenberg |
developed a printing press on which he printed a number of copies of the Bible |
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William Shakespeare |
most prominent English literary figure of this period-play write Romeo and Juliet, Hamlet, MacBeth |
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Pieter Brueghel |
famous Flemish artist who used his paintings to criticize the intolerance and cruelty he saw around him |
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Albrecht Durer |
German artist famous for copper engravings and woodcuts |
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Hans Holbein the Younger |
German who did most of his work in other countries painting portriats of famous people |
