Renaissance and Reformation
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- Dante
- Italian author that helped make vernacular literature popular - Divine Comedy
- da Vinci
- mastered art of realistic painting
- Raphael
- considered one of Italy's best painters, known for madonna paintings (Virgin Mary)
- van Eyck
- Flemish, one of the first oil painters
- printing press
- new invention that created an efficient way of making copies
- Luther
- monk and a professor, created 95 theses, brought idea that faith in God grants salvation
- Michelangelo
- architect, painter, sculptor, driven by passion, human beauty represented divine beauty in his art
- Petrarch
- the father of Italian Renaissance humanism
- Calvin
- French, converted to Protestantism, later brought idea that God made a predestination for everyone
- physical education
- the course of keeping a sound body [with a sound mind]
- Chaucer
- English author that helped make vernacular literature popular - The Canterbury Tales
- Brunelleschi
- architect inspired by the buildings of classic Rome
- Masaccio
- a style of painting that uses depth and the law of perspective to create the illusion of three dimensions
- Donatello
- sculptor that studied and copied the statues of Greeks and Romans
- fresco
- a painting done or fresh, wet with water-based paint
- Council of Trent
- meeting that affirms Catholic teachings go against Protestant beliefs
- liberal studies
- a set of educational subjects that provides a path of virtue and wisdom
- humanism
- the study of classics, the literary works of ancient Greece and Rome
- de Pizan
- known for writing books in defense of women