Renaissance Flashcards
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Renaissance
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The rebirth of European interest in the civil elations of ancient Greece and Rome
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Patron
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A wealthy person who hired an artist to produce a work of art for them
3
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Anatomy
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The study of the structure of the human body
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Humanism
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A shift in mindset from a focus on God to focus on human knowledge
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Perspective
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The creation of depth and distance in a painting
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Movable type printing press
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A method of printing books that placed individual metal letters into a frame to form words
7
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What did Michelangelo do?
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He sculpted the pieta a sculpture of Mary holding Jesus and the statue of David
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