Renaissance People 2
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- "The Birth of Venus" signifies the rebirth of man, female figures, myth
- Botecelli
- "The Peasant Dance", everyday village life scenes. Dutch
- Brueghei
- Woodcuts and engravings, mixes realism with symbolism
- Durer
- "Henry VII" and "Erasmus" paints portraits with detail
- Holbein
- "Mona Lisa" and "The Last Supper", perspective, emotion, antrue in background
- Da Vinci
- Specialized in Madonnas (Mary w/child), earthly qualities of human beauty, composition
- Raphael
- "St. Francis Preaching to the Birds", perspective, sensitive to humans
- Giotto
- "The Laughing Cavalier" and "The Merry Drinker", happy everyday people
- Hals
- "The Anatomy Lesson" and "The Drapers Guild", light and shadow, catches the emotion of a person in an instant of time
- Rembrandt
- Advanced the theory that the earth revolves around the sun, died before he got into too much trouble
- Copernicus
- Wrote a book that stated the earth revolves around the sun, church put him under house arrest, determined the speed of falling bodies, used the telescope to observe the planets
- Galileo
- Invented moveable type printing press, revolutionized communication and the sprad of ideas
- Gutenberg
- Identified cells
- Hooke
- Founded and promoted the idea that planets move in elliptical orbits around the sun
- Kepler
- Laws of gravitation
- Newton
- Accused of murder so he could draw a beating heart
- Vesalius
- Concept of stitches to close wounds instead of cauterizing(burning) them, bandaging
- Pare
- Pre-vaccine
- Paraciesius
- Studied how blood moves through the body, overturned idea that food turned into blood
- Harvey
- Ideal Renaissance man, engineering math, architecture, geology, botany, physiology, anatomy, sculpture, painting, music, poetry
- Da Vinci
- Latin classification system of plants and animals
- Linnaeus
- Scientific method
- Bacon
- Designed bronze doors of Bapitistery in Florence, 3-D realism, took 44 years to make
- Ghiberti
- "David", first nude since classical times, faces with emotion, bodies have definition
- Donatello
- "David", "Moses", "Pieta", loved sculpture, muscle-y figures
- Michaelangelo
- Lost competition for bronze, doors, designed and built the largest dome in Florence
- Brunelleschi
- Finished the design of St. Mark's Cathedral in the Vatican
- Michaelangelo
- "The Prince", said that the "ends justifies the means" and rulers can act in any way for the good of the state
- Machiavelli
- Father of humanism, copied the classics, love of earthly things yet devotion to religion, love for Laura
- Petrach
- "Don Quixote", made fun of feudalism in Spain
- Cervantes
- "Romeo & Juliet", etc., poet and playwright under Queen Elizabeth, gives very humman qualities to characters
- Shakespeare
- "Canterbury Tales", a collection of stories that tell the pilgrimage to ____Cantebury, England
- Chaucer
- "In Praise of Folly", encourages people to think about reform in church (i.e. sermons, people reading the Bible, behavior of people)
- Erasmus
- "Utopia", equality in society free or war, injustice, poverty
- Sir Thomas More
- Saw Paciic Ocean first time
- Balboa
- Discovered Bahamas
- Columbus
- Conquered Aztec
- Cortez
- Circumnavigated globe in 2 trips
- Magellan
- English Sea Dog (pirate)
- Sir Francis Drake
- Conquered Incas
- Pizarro
- Florida
- Ponce de Leon
- Set up school for navigaors/explorations
- Prince Henry of Portugal
- Sailed around Africa to India
- De Gama
- Pacific Ocean, South Pacific
- Cook
- Leader of France
- Joan of Arc
- Leader of Russia, expanded territory, reformist
- Catherine the Great
- Leader of France & Spain
- Charles V
- Leaders of Spain, Inquistion
- Ferdinand & Isabella
- England, founded Church of England
- Henry VIII
- France leader, divine monarch (god-king)
- Louis XIV
- Leader of the Reformation, 95 Thesis
- Luther
- Florence leaders
- Medici Famil
- England leader
- Queen Elizabeth