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| Question | Answer |
| Renaissance | terms means rebirth; following the Middle Ages an explosion of creativity in art, writing, that started in northern Italy 1300's-1600's. Artists like Michaelangelo, Leonardo da Vinci were sponsored by wealthy patrons |
| Key Characteristics of the Renaissance | -renewed interest in the ancient Greeks & Romans -humanism emphasized achievements of man & makes human being not God the center of attention |
| Leonardo da Vinci | painter, inventor, scientist a good example of a "Renaissance man". He painted the Last Supper and the Mona Lisa |
| Michelangelo | painted the ceiling of the Sistine Chapel and did the sculpture David and the La Pieta |
| secularism | used to describe the Renaissance. comes from the word secular, meaning of this world. A Medieval person was concerned with religion and the next world. A Renaissance person interested in THIS WORLD |
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