Come join in the merriment,
come join in the fun.
Come join us all,
come join us just one.
This game shall be easy,
the topic the same.
Just start with "A"
and give us a name.
But not just a name
from today's ambience.
Nay, nay, must be
from the Renaissance.

We'll start thee with
Abelard.

Black Death

How about "croft" - a planted area of approximately half an acre.

Anyone with a "D" word?

Da Vinci was part of the renaissance, no?

Erasmus-Renaissance writer

Florence

Giotto...an early Renaissance Italian artist.

Hieronymus Bosch

Inspired

Johannes Vermeer

Katrina?

Thanks for playing with me Deanna, I was getting lonely!

Lorenzo DeMedici

Michelangelo

Nicholas Copernicus

Othello

Pieta

Raphael (one of my favorite painters)

Sleeping Venus, a painting that's been attributed to both Giorgione and Titian. Which leads me to my next post.....

Titian.

Urban -- from the WebMuseum, Paris:

"The new age began in Padua and other urban communes of northern Italy in the 14th century, where lawyers and notaries imitated ancient Latin style and studied Roman archaeology."

WebMuseum Paris

Vasari, Georgio.

Wandering - Minstrels, Players, most forms of itinerant entertainers were described as "wandering"