| A | B |
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| Lorenzo de' Medici | represented the Renaissance ideal - a clever politician, generous patron, and a poet |
| Fransesco Petrarch | Renaissance humanist...hunted down and assmbled a library of Greek and Roman manuscripts. |
| Leonardo da Vinci | Painted Mona Lisa, had sketches of airplanes and submarines before the existed |
| Michelangelo | Painted the Pieta, David, and the cieling of the Sistine Chapel |
| Raphael | blended Christian and classical styles...."School of Athens" |
| Sofonisba Anguissola | Italian noblewoman..."The Artist's Sisters Playing Chess" |
| Artemisia Gentileschi | created bold paintings of dramatic realism- "Judith and the Maidservant" |
| Filippo Brunelleschi | created a dome modeled after the dome of the Prathenon in Rome. |
| Castiglione | "the book of the Courtier" - a well-educated, well-mannered aristrocrat who has mastered many fields, from poetry to music to sports. |
| Nicollo Machiavelli | wrote "the Prince" |
| Albrecht Durer | "German Leonardo" - brought Renaissance to Germany |
| Jan and Hubert van Eyck | painted portraits of townspeople as well as religious scenes...developed oil paint |
| Pieter Bruegel | painted peasant life |
| Peter Paul Rubens | blended realistic tradition of Flemish painters lik Bruegel with the classical themes and artistic freedom of the Italian Renaissance |
| Sir Thomas More | Wrote "Utopia" |
| Francois Rabelais | Wrote "Gargantua and Pantagruel" |
| Shakespeare | A Midsummer Night's Dream, Macbeth, Othello, Romeo and Juliet, etc etc etc |
| Miguel de Cervantes | wrote "Don Quixote" |
| Johann Gutenberg | invented the printing press |
| Pope Leo X | Son of LOrenzo the Magnificent |
| Martin Luther | German Monk and professor of theology...attacked worldliness and corruption of the Church, nailed 95 Statements on church door |
| John Calvin | wrote "INstitutes of the Christian Religion"...followed Martin Luther's teachings |
