2. Famous People of the Renaissance

3. Leonardo da Vinci 1452-1519

4. Painter, sculptor, architect, inventor, engineer, town planner and mapmaker One of the great geniuses of history Studied nature and technology Notebooks Mona Lisa Last Supper

5. Milan Last Supper –Used new fresco method –Built into the room's end Light from the side with the window Door cut below During WWII a bomb hit the monastery Destroyed by erosion

6. Mona Lisa The greatness of the Mona Lisa –What do you see?

7. Notebooks Coded –Read R L with a mirror Scientific illustration –Used science to support art

8. Aeronautics

9. Legacy Only 17 paintings Notebooks Drawings of unfinished works Diverted rivers to prevent flooding Principles of turbine Cartography Submarine Flying machine Parachute …And much more….

10. Michelangelo Buonarroti

11. Commissions by Medici Sculptor in Florence Lived in the Medici palace Studied anatomy Several pieces for the Medici tombs, etc.

12. Return to Rome Worked on tomb for Julius II Sistine Chapel (6) Pope lives here in Vatican City

13. Sistine Chapel

14. Moses Received funding from Pope Leo X –The Moses

15. St. Peter’s Architect for St. Peter’s Basilica— paid for with indulgences

16. Legacy World’s greatest sculptor –See the figure inside the stone and remove excess Painter –Mannerism Poet Architect Engineer

17. Erasmus The leading humanist of the age Studied ancient languages –Translated New Testament Criticized Martin Luther –…Free Will and Hyperaspistes In Praise of Folly –Major work –Written in classical style –Discoursed on the foolishness and misguided pompousness of the world

18. Machiavelli-The Prince Offered advice for rulers Is it better to be loved or feared? Both “But it is difficult to achieve both and, if one of them has to be lacking, it is much safer to be feared than loved.” Machiavelli “the end justifies the means” Do you think this is good advice?

19. Il Duomo St. Peter’s St. Paul’s US capital (Florence) (Rome) (London) Dome Comparison

20. Early Renaissance Art What was different in the Renaissance: –Realism –Perspective –Classical (pagan) themes –Geometrical arrangement of figures –Light and shadowing (chiaroscuro) –Softening of edges (sfumato) –Backgrounds –Artist able to live from commissions

21. Gutenberg and the Printing Press Mid 1400s Johann Gutenberg invented printing press using moveable type Each letter on separate piece of metal 1456 printed the Bible in Latin

22. William Shakespeare Greatest writer in the English language More than 30 comedies, tragedies and histories Julius Caesar Antony and Cleopatra Romeo and Juliet Othello

23. Renaissance Man Broad knowledge about many things in different fields Deep knowledge of skill in one area Able to link areas and create new knowledge ***Remember you were suppose to copy everything WITHOUT a red X!