Famous People of Renaissance

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Famous People of Renaissance

• Mrs. Petras

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Baldassare Castiglione

• Social Writer
• The book of the Courtier

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Michelangelo Buonarroti
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Donatello

• Classical
• Sculptures

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Leonardo da Vinci

• Renaissance Man
• Painter
• Scientist
• inventor

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Raphael Sanzio
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Sofonisba Anguissola
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Artemisia Gentileschi
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Francesco Petrarch

• Poet - Humanist
• Wrote in Italian and Latin
• Famous sonnet Laura

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Giovanni Boccaccio

• Writer
• Decameron
• Characters are presented
• In all their individuality

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Niccolo Machiavelli

• Writer/Diplomat
• The Prince
• Examines how rulers gain power and keep it
• the end always justifies the means
• lie, cheat and kill

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Vittoria Colonna

• Writer poet
• Exchanged letters with Michelangelo and helped
  Castiglione publish The Courtier

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Albrecht Durer

• Painter
• Helped spread Renaissance to the North
• Prints portray religious subjects or classical
  myths
• Realistic landscapes

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Hans Holbein
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Jan van Eyck

• Painter
• Oil based paints
• Display unusual realistic details

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Pieter Bruegel

• Realistic painter
• Great at painting large groups
• Interested in Everyday life

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Desiderius Erasmus

• Christian Humanist/Writer
• All Should study Bible
• The Praise of Folly

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Sir Thomas More

• Christian Humanist/Writer
• Wrote in Latin
• Utopia no place

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Christine de Pizan

• Writer
• First woman to earn a living as a writer
• The Book of The City of Ladies
• First woman to question the different treatment
  of boys and girls

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William Shakespeare
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Johann Gutenberg

• Inventor
• Printing Press
• The Gutenberg Bible