1. Famous People of the Renaissance

2. Michelangelo Sculptor, engineer, architect & poet David Pieta
“melancholy genius”
David
Pieta
Sistine Chapel
St. Peter’s Cathedral

3. Michelangelo’s Pieta Pieta Analysis Video
What type of descriptive words do the narrators use to describe the Pieta?
What does Pieta mean in Italian? How do you see this in the sculpture?

4. Leonardo da Vinci Talents ranged over many areas Mona Lisa
The Last Supper

5. Lost History- Mona Lisa
Mona Lisa Video
How would you describe Leonardo da Vinci’s personality?
What is the Mona Lisa composed of?
What is the average viewing time for the Mona Lisa?

6. Raphael Artistic talent and a “sweet and gracious nature”
The School of Athens
Various Madonnas

7. School of Athens
The practice during Imperial Roman times of furnishing libraries with portraits of great poets was revived in fifteenth century Italy. Raphael revolutionized this practice in the Stanza by harmoniously arranging large groups of people as one unit in his fresco compositions. In the fresco of the School of Athens, sages from different epochs are arranged as colleagues in a timeless academy. Those that have been positively identified using accurate historical evidence are: Plato, Aristotle, Socrates, Pythagoras, Euclid, Alcibiades, Diogenes, Ptolemy, Zoroaster and Raphael. Plato is in the center pointing his finger to the heavens while holding the Timaeus, his treatise on the origin of the world. Next to him, his younger pupil Aristotle holds a copy of his Ethics while describing the earth and the wide realm of moral teaching with his extended hand in an elegant horizontal gesture.

8. Machiavelli Guide for rulers on how to gain and maintain power
The Prince
Real rulers in an age of ruthless politics

9. Machiavelli Machiavelli and the Prince What was The Prince based on?
3 most important characteristics: Act boldly, protect power, appear unwavering while remaining flexible

10. Johann Gutenberg Printed first complete edition of the Bible
Used printing press with movable type
15-20 million copies of Bible by 1500

11. William Shakespeare English poet & playwright
Expressed universal themes in everyday, realistic settings
Common language
Renaissance Histeria Shakespeare

12. Martin Luther German monk & professor of theology 95 Theses
Arguments against indulgences
Faith alone

13. John Calvin Priest & lawyer Founded Calvinism
Believed in predestination
World divided into saints and sinners

14. Nicolaus Copernicus Heliocentric model of universe (theory)
Planets revolve around the sun
Orbit called an ellipse

15. Galileo Studied moons of Jupiter and their orbit
Heliocentrism (proved)
Tried before the Inquisition and forced to admit to his “heresies”

16. Rene Descartes Human reasoning as the road to understanding
Discourse on Method (1637)
“I think, therefore I am”

17. Isaac Newton Single force keeps planets in their orbits: gravity
Laws of motions & mechanics