GHC Renaissance (vocab) Study Guide With Practice Exam.

Renaissance - correct answer the great revival of classical art, literature, and learning in Europe from the 14th century to the 17th century, marking the transition from the medieval to the modern world Humanist - correct answer a person having a strong interest in or concern for human welfare, values, and dignity. Scholar - correct answer a learned or erudite person, especially one who has profound knowledge of a particular subject. Art - correct answer the quality, production, expression, or realm of things that conform to accepted aesthetic principles of beauty, show imagination and skill, and have more than ordinary meaning and importance Antiquity - correct answer the quality of being ancient; ancientness: Utopia - correct answer an imaginary island described in Sir Thomas More's Utopia (1516) as enjoying perfection in law, politics, etc. Classicism - correct answer the principles or styles characteristic of the literature and art of ancient Greece and Rome. Patron - correct answer a person who supports with money, gifts, efforts, or endorsement an artist, writer, museum, cause, charity, institution, special event, or the like: Individualism - correct answer a social theory advocating the liberty, rights, or independent action of the individual.