Renaissance Vocabulary
Aesthetic
Architecture
Erasmus
Florence
Humanism
Leonardo da Vinci
Machiavelli
Medici
Michelangelo
Raphael
Reformation
Renaissance
Renaissance Man
Scientific Method
Sir Thomas Moore
St. Peter’s Basilica
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Relating to
art or beauty
Aesthetic
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The art or
science of
designing and
creating buildings
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Architecture
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Dutch priest
and leader of
the humanist
movement
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Erasmus
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City-state in
Italy – thought
to be origin of
Renaissance
Florence
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A system of values and
beliefs that is based on the
idea that people are
basically good and that
problems can be solved
using reason instead of
religion
Humanism
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Italian painter,
sculptor, draftsman,
architect, engineer,
and scientist
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Leonardo
Da Vinci
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Italian statesman,
historian, and
political theorist
who wrote The
Prince – a kind of
handbook for rulers
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Machiavelli
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Ruled Italy
1430-1737
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Medici
Family
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Italian sculptor,
painter,
architect, and
poet
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Michelangelo
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Italian painter
and architect
Raphael
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movement
for the reform of the
Roman Catholic Church,
led by John Wycliffe, Jan
Hus, Martin Luther, and
John Calvin
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Reformation
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Renewed interest in
Classical learning
and values to
Italy/Europe
following the “dark
ages”
Renaissance
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A person with
many talents or
areas of
knowledge
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Renaissance
Man
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A method of research in
which a problem is
identified, relevant data
is gathered, a hypothesis
is formulated from this
data and the hypothesis
is empirically tested
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Scientific
Method
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English lawyer,
social philosopher,
author, statesman,
and Renaissance
humanist – wrote
Utopia led
Reformation
Sir Thomas
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Late Renaissance
church located in the
Vatican City.
Most renowned work
of Renaissance
architecture
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St. Peter’s
Basilica
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