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The Renaissance in Europe

Teacher: Katie
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Northern European artists tended to make ******* works of art than the Italian artists.
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He was well known for his frescoes in the Vatican Palace.
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In 1434 ****** de' Medici took control of Florence.
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An intellectual movement of the Renaissance based on the study of the humanities, which included grammar, rhetoric, poetry, moral philosophy, and history.
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The German Johannes ********* invented the world's first movable type (printing press) in the 1440s.
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During the Middle Ages, Italy had failed to develop a centralized *********** state.
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He painted the "Adoration of the Magi."
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In the late Middle Ages, Italian cities such as ****** took the lead in establishing merchant fleets and trading with the Byzantine and Islamic civilizations to the east.
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He designed the Florence cathedral's dome.
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His masterpiece is called the "Divine Comedy" and it was written in the vernacular, not Latin.
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A form of government in which the leader is not a king and certain citizens have the right to vote.
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Renaissance sculptors such as ********* studied the statues of the Greeks and Romans.
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During the Renaissance, *********** continued to dominate society.
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******* continued to decrease with the decline of the manorial system.
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Raphael's "Marriage of the ******" (1504) presents biblical figures in a contemporary Renaissance setting.
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Artistic techniques used to give the effect of three-dimensional depth to two-dimensional surfaces.
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Using an efficient tax system, the ******* generated huge revenues for the government.
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Leonardo da Vinci was seen as a model of the ******** ideal.
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******, one of the earliest Flemish masters of painting, used shadows to create depth and the smallest details to reflect reality.
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Painting done on fresh, wet plaster with water-based paints.
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******* makers and bankers, such as the Medici family, dominated the economy of Florence.
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His book "The Prince" is one of the most influential works on political power in the Western world.
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The republic of Florence dominated the northern Italian region of *******.
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A soldier who fights primarily for pay.
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Leonardo da Vinci was an artist, scientist, inventor, and *********.
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Leonardo da Vinci's "Mona Lisa" was the first casual ********.
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One German artist who was greatly affected by the Italians was Albrecht *****.
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The language of everyday speech in a particular region.
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In the late 1400s, the Dominican preacher ********** began condemning the corruption and excesses of the Medici family.
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He rediscovered the classical principles of linear-perspective construction, which had disappeared from use during the Middle Ages.
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According to the Italian diplomat ***********, a noble was born, not made.
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A member of the middle class who lived in a city or a town.
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He was Florence's greatest poet.
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Having a distinctive quality or form.
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Officially, Venice was a republic with an elected leader called a ****.