Renaissance Notes

• Renaissance means rebirth
• Started in Florence, Italy
• Medici family brought the Renaissance (Lorenzo)
• Great Artist Leonardo da Vinici and Michelangelo
• Michelangelo painted the Sistine Chapel
• Sistine Chapel in Rome
• Sistine Chapel full of armed guards
• Pieta is 6 feet tall of Virgin Mary holding Jesus
• The last Supper is another famous artwork
• Is it better to be feared than loved or loved than feared?
• Yohan printed the bible.
• Erasmus was a Dutch scolar
• Tomas Moore wrote a book called utopia
• William Shakespear wrote Hamlet, Macbeth, and Romeo and Juliet
• The flemish were the first to use oil on canvas

                                     

Facts

• Facebook and Youtube didnt exist 6 years ago.
• Wikipedia was launched in 2001.
• We are currently preparing kids for jobs that dont exist.
• Today's 21 year old has watched 20,000 hours of television.
• The number of text messages sent today exceeds the number of people on the planet.
• India has more honors kids than America has kids.
• 1 out of 8 married couples met online.
• There are 31 billion searches on google every month.
• 93% of adults own cell phones.
• The 1st commercial text message was sent in December of 1992.