Transcript The Renaissance Legacy

Chapter 17 - The Renaissance
Section 4 , The Renaissance Legacy
1. Why did Brunelleschi study ancient Roman
buildings?
2. How is the study of human anatomy related
to the realism of Renaissance paintings?
3. Why are literary works the Renaissance
writers relevant today ?
Filippo
Brunelleschi
Leonardo da Vinci
Michelangelo
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Cervantes
Dante Alighieri
Shakespeare
Who were the important artist of the Renaissance and what is their legacy?
Filippo Brunelleschi
discovered the
mathematical system for
representing threedimensional images on
a flat surface, linear
perspective. The church
of San Lorenzo
Cervantes
Don Quixote is about
the quest of a dream. It
features a bumbling
landowner who believes
it is his duty to become
a knight and right every
wrong.
Michelangelo
painted the ceiling of
the Sistine Chapel.
The ceiling shows
the story of Creation
and of Noah.
Leonardo da Vinci
The Last Supper and the
Mona Lisa. invented,
sfumato - soft outlines
and shadows to produce
an effect of distance.
studies of human
anatomy
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Shakespeare
wrote thirty-seven plays
sonnets and other
Dante Alighieri
poetry. A sonnet is a
The Divine Comedy,
written in the vernacular, poem of fourteen lines
with a fixed rhyming
describes an imaginary
pattern. Many
journey through heaven
expressions from his
and hell.
work endure today.
Who were the important artist of the Renaissance and what is their legacy?
The church of San Lorenzo
the Sistine Chapel
Mona Lisa / The Last Supper