Tuesday, February 28, 2012

Notes

  • Renaissance means rebirth
  • Started in Florence, Italy.
  • The Medici started the Renaissance Movement to life.(Lorenzo)
  • They called them humanists, someone who returns to the classics.
  • The artists and the writers.
  • Artists relied on perspective, lifelike, humanistic.
  • Michaelangolo was a great painter and scupltor. (Sistine chapel was a famous work of art.)
  • Located in The Vatican City.
  • In 1999 sold picture rights' to the Japanese.
  • da Vinci's famous painting was the Mona Lisa and The Last Supper
  • Rapheal painted Madonna's
  • The writers.
  • Petrarch wrote poems to Laura.
  • Machiavelli <3 wrote the "Prince".
  • Is it better to be loved than feared or feared than loved?
  • It is better to be feared than loved for a leader, but loved than feared as a person.

  • Guhtenburg is famous for the printing press
  • Erasmus is famous for The Praise of Folly
  • Thomas More's famous book was Utopia
  • Wlliam Shakespeare wrote Romeo and Juliet
  • The Flemish were the first to paint on canvas

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