 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

 Sculptor, painter, architect, engineer  Known for › Statue of David › Sistine Chapel Ceiling › The Last Judgment › Pieta

 Painter and architect  Known for › The School of Athens › Frescos in the Vatican › Madonnas (paintings of the mother mary)

 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!

 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.

 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

 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

 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