Ch29 Vocabulary-Renaissance
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- Arno River
- the river that Florence is located on
- Medici family
- wealthy family of patrons that controlled Florence for almost three centuries
- Donatello
- florentine sculptor, known for lifelike, expressionful style
- Dante Alighieri
- writer of the Divine Comedy
- Leonardo da Vinci
- artist, scientist,mathematician;studied geometry, engineering, sound, motion, architecture
- Lorenzo the Magnificent
- powerful member of the Medici family;patron;ruled 1469-1492
- Brunelleschi
- architect;solved problem to build dome on Duomo di Santa Maria de Fiore
- Divine Comedy
- book;written by Dante Alighieri in early 1300's
- Florence
- Italian city where Renaissance began;located on Arno River
- Girolamo Cardano
- mathematician;studied probability;liked hard algebra equations
- Niccolo Machiavelli
- writer;served as a diplomat;florentine historian
- The Statue of David
- statue;one is made by Donatello, the other is made by Michelangelo