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1
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Botticelli”s depiction of — was one of the first large-scale depictions of classical mythology since antiquity

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Venus

2
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Wealthy Citizens who sometimes held public office but more often wielded power from behind the scenes

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Merchant Princes

3
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Florence’s greatest architect

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Filippo Brunelleschi

4
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Illusion of depth by blurring trees

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Atmospheric perspective

5
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Impression of space

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linear perspective

6
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Song set in 4 parts; each part is performed by one singer

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Madrigal

7
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Donatello’s —

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David

8
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Michelangelo’s —

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David and pieta

9
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Masterpiece of world political theory for Italian princes

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Machiavelli’s The Prince

10
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Across the [Mona Lisa] is a hazy aura created by the use of —

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sfumato

11
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Renaissance musicians migrated to the courts of patrons such as —

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Maximilian

12
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The greatest composer of the high renaissance

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Josquin des Prez

13
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— spent his last years devoted to architechture

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Michaelangelo

14
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The construction a new — revealed the renaissance spirit at its best and worst

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St. Peter’s Cathedral

15
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Popular young painter and artist

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Raphael

16
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Pious monk who set off a religious revolution in 1517

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Martin Luther

17
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Religious revolt that divided western Christianity into Roman Catholic and Protestant faiths

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Reformation

18
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Martin Luthers major rejections of the Catholic church (communion, penance, matrimony)

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Sacraments

19
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A humanist and generous patron of the arts, — negotiated with — to establish the Collége de France

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Francis I, Eramus

20
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Designed by an Italian architect for a French king, — symmetrical and unified plan was marked by round turrets at the corners

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Château de Chambord

21
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the era of prosperity of the Elizabethan theater began in 1576, when — was built

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theater in london/Globe Theater

22
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Most acclaimed dramatist of the English language

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Shakespeare

23
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A dance that called for males to lift their partners on their thighs

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Volta

24
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Catholic church’s effort to reform itself and mount a religious offensive against protestantism

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Counter-Reformation