Chapter 29 Vocabulary
For our 7th Grade Quiz on Vocabulary for Mrs.A's class =)
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- The Statue of David
- A statue made by Michaelangelo that stands in the Piazza della Vecchio
- Brunelleschi
- A Renaissance archetect who studied ancient ruins in Rome
- Arno River
- North of center of Italy, a river
- Divine Comedy
- A Renaissance writer in Florence named Dante wrote this poem written in the 1300s
- Dante Aligheri
- A Renaissance writer who wrote the Divine Comedy in his native language
- Florence
- Italy's leading cultular canter during the Renaissance
- Lorenzo the Magnificent
- A famous leading patron of art and scholarship, ruled Florence for more than 20 years
- Medici family
- One of the wealthiest families in Italy, owned 80 banks
- Niccolo Machiavelli
- A florence statesman and historian, wrote a famous book called The Prince
- Girolamo Cardano
- Solved complex questions in algebra, he did important experaments in gravity
- Donatello
- The original creator of the statue of David, his work influenced Michalangelo's Statue of David
- Leonardo da Vinci
- One of the most creative Renaissance thinkers, he was an artist a scientist, and an inventor, mostly known for his famous painting The Mona Lisa