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intellectual movement at heart of Renaissance that focused on education and classics

study of subjects such as grammar, rhetoric, poetry, and history, that were taught in ancient Greece and Rome

• Florentine who lived in 1300s who was a Renaissance humanist, poet, and scholar
• built library of Greek and Roman writings

• city in Tuscany region of northern Italy
• center of Renaissance

financial supporter

artistic technique used to give paintings and drawings a 3D effect

• 1452-1519
• studied structure of human body --> realistic art
• paintings Mona Lisa and The Last Supper

• 1475-1564
• "melancholy genius" because work reflects life-long spiritual and artistic struggles
• marble David and Pieta
• murals on ceiling of Sistine Chapel in Rome
• dome of St. Peter's Cathedral in Rome

• 1483-1520
• admired for "sweet and gracious nature"
• blended Christian and classical styles
• painting The School of Athens

author of The Book of the Courtier

wrote The Prince about ruthless power politics