considered to be one of the greatest painters of all time and perhaps the most diversely talented...
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Key Figures of the Renaissance
Leonardo da Vinci Considered to be one of the greatest
painters of all time and perhaps the most diversely talented person to have ever lived› Sculptor, architect, scientist, inventor,
engineer, artist› The “Renaissance Man”
Known for› Mona Lisa› The Last Supper› Vitruvian Man
Michelangelo
Sculptor, painter, architect, engineer
Known for › Statue of David› Sistine Chapel Ceiling › The Last Judgment› Pieta
Raphael
Painter and architect Known for
› The School of Athens› Frescos in the Vatican› Madonnas (paintings of the mother mary)
Johannes Gutenberg
Invented movable type on the printing press› Made printing much faster and
cheaper! The Bible = first major book to be
printed with movable type› People could now read it for
themselves and started to question the Church!
William Shakespeare
Wrote many plays and sonnets during the Golden Age of Queen Elizabeth in England
Plays were performed at the Globe› Only male actors
Known for works such as Romeo & Juliet, Hamlet, The Taming of the Shrew, Macbeth etc.
Geoffrey Chaucer
Author, poet, philosopher Often called the Father of English
Literature One of the first writers to write in the
vernacular Known for his work The Canterbury
Tales
Sir Thomas More
English philosopher, humanist and statesmen
Wrote books: Utopia, and History of King Richard III.
Worked closely with Henry VIII who later had him arrested and executed
Is a Saint in the Catholic Church
Isabella D’Este Considered the First Lady of the
Renaissance Patron of the arts and a leader in
fashion Patron of arts for artists such as
Leonardo Da Vinci