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nounthe revival of learning and culture
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nounthe period of European history at the close of the Middle Ages and the rise of the modern world; a cultural rebirth from the 14th through the middle of the 17th centuries
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- basement the ground floor facade or interior in Renaissance architecture
- florence a city in central Italy on the Arno; provincial capital of Tuscany; center of the Italian Renaissance from 14th to 16th centuries
- leonardo Italian painter and sculptor and engineer and scientist and architect; the most versatile genius of the Italian Renaissance (1452-1519)
- michelangelo Florentine sculptor and painter and architect; one of the outstanding figures of the Renaissance (1475-1564)
- raphael Italian painter whose many paintings exemplify the ideals of the High Renaissance (1483-1520)
- jag a slit in a garment that exposes material of a different color underneath; used in Renaissance clothing
- erasmus Dutch humanist and theologian who was the leading Renaissance scholar of northern Europe; although his criticisms of the Roman Catholic Church led to the Reformation, he opposed violence and condemned Martin Luther (1466-1536)
- galen Greek anatomist whose theories formed the basis of European medicine until the Renaissance (circa 130-200)
- humanist of or pertaining to Renaissance humanism
- ptolemy Alexandrian astronomer (of the 2nd century) who proposed a geocentric system of astronomy that was undisputed until the late Renaissance