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Renaissance

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the revival of art and literature under the influence of classical models in the 14th–16th century

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Milan

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industrial city in central Lombardy, in N Italy: cathedral.

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Venice

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Italian Venezia. a seaport in NE Italy, built on numerous small islands in the Lagoon of Venice.

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Florence

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Italian Firenze. a city in central Italy, on the Arno River: capital of the former grand duchy of Tuscany.

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Rome

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Italian Roma. a city in and the capital of Italy, in the central part, on the Tiber: ancient capital of the Roman Empire; site of Vatican City, seat of authority of the Roman Catholic Church.

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Medici Family

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Medici. Italian noble family that produced three popes (Leo X, Clement VII, and Leo XI) and two queens of France (Catherine de Médicis and Marie de Médicis). Cosimo “the Elder” (1389–1464) was the first of the family to rule Florence.

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Humanism

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any system or mode of thought or action in which human interests, values, and dignity predominate.

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Machiavelli

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Niccolò di Bernardo [neek-kaw-law dee ber-nahr-daw] (Show IPA), 1469–1527, Italian statesman, political philosopher, and author.

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Perspective

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a technique of depicting volumes and spatial relationships on a flat surface.
Compare aerial perspective, linear perspective.

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Gutenberg

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c1400–68, German printer: credited with invention of printing from movable type.

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Erasmus

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male given name: from a Greek word meaning “beloved

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William Shakespeare

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William (“the Bard”; “the Bard of Avon”) 1564–1616, English poet and dramatist.

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Sin Thomas More

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English writer on religious subjects.

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Flemish

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of or relating to Flanders, its people, or their language.

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Michelangelo

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Michelangelo Buonarroti) 1475–1564, Italian sculptor, painter, architect, and poet.

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John Van Eyck

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was an Early Netherlandish painter active in Bruges and one of the most significant Northern Renaissance artists of the 15th century.

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Albert Durer

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Albrecht Dürer was a painter, printmaker, and theorist of the German Renaissance. Born in Nuremberg, Dürer established his reputation and influence across Europe when he was still in his twenties, due to his high-quality woodcut prints.

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Fresco

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Also called buon fresco, true fresco. the art or technique of painting on a moist, plaster surface with colors ground up in water or a limewater mixture.

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Indulgences

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the act or practice of indulging; gratification of desire.

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Predestination

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an act of predestinating or predestining.

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Reformation

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(initial capital letter) the religious movement in the 16th century that had for its object the reform of the Roman Catholic Church, and that led to the establishment of the Protestant churches.

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Martin Luther

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German theologian and author: leader, in Germany, of the Protestant Reformation.

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Henry 8th

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Henry VIII was King of England from 21 April 1509 until his death. He was the first English King of Ireland, and continued the nominal claim by English monarchs to the Kingdom of France.

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John Calvin

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John (Jean Chauvin or Caulvin) 1509–64, French theologian and reformer in Switzerland: leader in the Protestant Reformation. 2. Melvin, 1911–97, U.S. chemist: Nobel Prize 1961. 3. a male given name: from a Latin word meaning “bald.”

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Huguenots

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French Protestant of the 16th–17th centuries. Largely Calvinist, the Huguenots suffered severe persecution at the hands of the Catholic majority, and many thousands emigrated from France.