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