The Renaissance

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Renaissance

Answer 1

The rebirth of European interest in the civilisations of Ancient Greece and Rome. During this period, people began to question old ideas from the Middle Ages hand develop new ideas about art, architecture, science, literature and medicine

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Humanism

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A shift in mindset from a focus on god to a focus on human knowledge

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Humanism

Answer 3

A shift in mindset from a focus on god to a focus on human knowledge

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Patron

Answer 4

A wealthy person who commissioned (hired) an artist to produce a work of art for them

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Perspective

Answer 5

The creation of dearth and distance in a painting

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Anatomy

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The study of the structure of the human body

Question 7

Movable type printing press

Answer 7

A method of printing books that placed individual metal letters into a frame to form words, coated them with ink and pressed the frame onto the paper

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Heresy

Answer 8

Knowingly holding a view that went against the Catholic Church