The Renaissance
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- Erasmus
- humanists from the Netherlands
- Donatello
- Italian sculptor who carved marble and utilized bronze
- Boccaccio
- Italian writer who writes the "Decameron"
- William Shakespeare
- English writer who wrote 38 plays and 154 sonnets
- Leonardo da Vinci
- Italian artist who had fantastic perspective and famous for painting the Mona Lisa
- Albrecht Durer
- German artist who was noted for carving wood
- Florence
- city located in Italy that was ruled by cultural people and was very wealthy
- Francois Rabalais
- French writer who wrote "Gargantua and Pantagrul"
- Vesalius
- scientist who dissected the human body
- Petrarch
- Italian humanist who was a sonnet writer and started the iambic pentameter
- Harvey
- scientist who named parts of the circulatory system
- Titian
- Italian artist notes for using the color red in every of his paintings
- Renaissance
- means rebirth due to the comeback of classical learning
- Machiavelli
- Italian who writes "The Prince"
- Humanism
- philosophy that combines classical understanding and ancient greek and roman writings and beliefs
- Copernicus
- scientist who proposed that sun is heliocentric
- Kepler
- scientist who mapped out the solar system
- Galileo
- scientist who invented the telescope
- Newton
- scientist who discovered specific gravity and the laws of motion
- Giotto
- very early Italian artist whose pictures were flat
- Masaccio
- Italian artist who had better perspective than Giotto
- Castiglione
- Italian writer who writes "The Book of the Courtier"
- Miguel Cervantes
- Spanish writer who wrote "Don Quixote"
- Raphael
- Italian artist who is noted for painting Madonnas and for families
- Thomas Moore
- wealthy friend w/ Henry VIII who wrote "Utopia" about the perfect society
- Venice
- Italian city that is located directly on a trade route
- Hans Holbein
- German artists who painted wealthy people
- Rome
- the Italian city of the pope that got its money from the wealth of the Pope
- Michelangelo
- Italian artist who is famou for painting the Celing of the Sistine Chapel and was the best sculptor
- Johannes Gutenburg
- person who invented the Printing Press
- In Praise of Folly
- Erasmus's book that was anti catholic