Transcript People of the renaissance

Famous People of
the renaissance
The Medici Family
• Wealthiest family in
Florence
• Renaissance begins
here
• Use wealth to make
city beautiful
Petrarch
• He studied history to
share classical history
• He was a poet
• He thought if you didn’t
know history, you would
repeat it
• Wrote about Humanist
Ideas (That individuals
are worthy,not just
nobles/God)
Dante
• “Divine comedy’
• Book written in vernacular
(common language)
• References to Classical
Civilizations like Virgil
(roman Poet)
• This painting depicts
Hades
Shakespeare
• Considered the greatest writer in the
English language
• He coined many words and Quotes we
still use today!
We see the death scene
from
Romeo and Juliette
Michelangelo
• Sculptor, painter
• Studied classical sculptors, so
his sculptures could be seen “in
the round” or from any angle
• Sculptures were realistic or
“come to life”
• Sculptures were huge, 17 ft tall
• Most famous painting, the ceiling
of the Sistine Chapel shown here
• You see the “touch of life” from
God to Adam
Da Vinci
• Mona Lisa-most famous
painting in the Renaissance
• He was a vegetarian
• Studied Anatomy to paint
more realistically
• Painter,inventor,sculpter,
mathmatician,engineer
• Inventions include
helicoper/submarine
Boticelli
Gutenberg
• Develops the movable type printer
• allows letters to be rearranged on next
page
• Results in more books printed
• cost of books go down
• Cheaper books allow anyone access to
knowledge
• Knowledge is spread faster/further
Machiavelli
• “The Prince”,book about politics
• Rulers shouldn’t be good/bad but do
what really worked
• Rulers should be feared more than
loved
• Rulers should lie if it helped them rule
• The “ends justify the means”
• This means that a goal is so important
that you do anything,no matter how
bad, to achieve it