The Renaissance in Europe Crossword Puzzle

QUESTIONS LIST:

• gutenberg : the german johannes ********* invented the world's first movable type (printing press) in the 1440s.
• smaller : northern european artists tended to make ******* works of art than the italian artists.
• dante : he was florence's greatest poet.
• donatello : renaissance sculptors such as ********* studied the statues of the greeks and romans.
• mercenary : a soldier who fights primarily for pay.
• perspective : artistic techniques used to give the effect of three-dimensional depth to two-dimensional surfaces.
• republic : a form of government in which the leader is not a king and certain citizens have the right to vote.
• campin : ******, one of the earliest flemish masters of painting, used shadows to create depth and the smallest details to reflect reality.
• visionary : leonardo da vinci was an artist, scientist, inventor, and *********.
• serfdom : ******* continued to decrease with the decline of the manorial system.
• doge : officially, venice was a republic with an elected leader called a ****.
• dante : his masterpiece is called the "divine comedy" and it was written in the vernacular, not latin.
• tuscany : the republic of florence dominated the northern italian region of *******.
• raphael : he was well known for his frescoes in the vatican palace.
• machiavelli : his book "the prince" is one of the most influential works on political power in the western world.
• fresco : painting done on fresh, wet plaster with water-based paints.
• venice : in the late middle ages, italian cities such as ****** took the lead in establishing merchant fleets and trading with the byzantine and islamic civilizations to the east.
• botticelli : he painted the "adoration of the magi."
• durer : one german artist who was greatly affected by the italians was albrecht *****.
• style : having a distinctive quality or form.
• aristocrats : during the renaissance, *********** continued to dominate society.
• cosimo : in 1434 ****** de' medici took control of florence.
• textile : ******* makers and bankers, such as the medici family, dominated the economy of florence.
• burgher : a member of the middle class who lived in a city or a town.