Section 1:
-Renaissance means 'rebirth' in French.
Began in Florence, Italy.
Medici family started the movement of arts. Lorenzo the Magnificent in particular.
Humanist= people who returned to the past to move forward.
-Frencesco Petrarch- wrote poetry, sonnets to Laura=imaginative person who was his ideal woman.
-<3Niccolo Machiavelli<3- Florentine writer. Wrote The Prince. "Is is better to be loved than feared, or feared than loved?" (Opinion: Loved. It is easier to be feared, and everyone would want to be a little of both, but that would be very hard to do. I would rather be vulnerbale and loved than powerful and feared.) Leader= loved than feared
Artists used perspective for the first time, which made them look normal, more realistic.
Michelangelo- Sistine Chapel inside the Vadican City.
Leonardo Da Vinci- famous for Mona Lisa and the Last Supper. Scetched plants, animals, and machines.
Rafael-painted frescos, madonnas.
Titian-known for the Assumption of the Virgin
Gutenburg- known for creating the printing press machine-to copy the Bible.
Arasmus-wrote the Praise of Folly
Thomas More-The Utopia.
Shakespeare- stories dealt with something he dealt with or experienced.
Flemish- 1st to paint with oils on canvaseses.
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