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| Fontainebleau | Palace of King Francis I which introduced the Italian Mannerist style of sculpture, metalwork, painting, stucco and woodwork, and outdoors the patterned garden to France.,  |
| Albrecht Dürer | (1471 – 1528) German painter and engraver he used his obeservations of nature and anatomy to create portraits and religious paintings filled with small details.,  |
| Hans Holbein | (1497 - 1543) German artist and printmaker who painted in England, famous for painting portraits of almost photographic detail. |
| Jan van Eyck | (1390? – 1441) Flemish Renaissance painter, he developed the use of oil paints to create realistic details to reveal the personality of his subjects.,  |
| Pieter Bruegel the Elder | (1525 - 1569) Flemish painter and printmaker who specialized in landscapes populated by peasants. Originated genre painting.,  |
| Genre painting | Paintings that represent scenes or events from everyday life, such as markets, domestic settings, interiors, parties, inn scenes, and street scenes. |
| Philosophical or Christian Humanists | Humanists tried to combine Christian and Classical philosophies into a universal philosophy, that would offer a superior moral view of the world. To find universal truths. |
| Desiderius Erasmus | (1466? - 1536) Dutch Renaissance humanist and a Catholic Christian theologian who believed in Christianity of the heart and wrote The Praise of Folly which poked fun at false practices and beliefs.,  |
| Thomas More | (1478 - 1535) English lawyer, author, statesman and Renaissance humanist scholar who wrote Utopia about an imaginary land where there was no greed, corruption or war.,  |
| utopia | An imaginary land, an ideal place. |
| Christine de Pizan | (1363 - 1434) Italian poet who spent most of her life in France. Europe’s first professional woman writer. She wrote The Book of The City of Ladies. |
| William Shakespeare | (1564 - 1616) Most famous writer of the English Renaissance. He used his command of the English language to write plays and poetry. |
| Globe Theatre | London theatre built in 1599 by Shakespeare's playing company, the Lord Chamberlain's Men, and was destroyed by fire on 29 June 1613.,  |
| Johann Gutenberg | (1398-1468) German goldsmith and printer who is credited with being the first European to use movable type printing, in around 1439, and the global inventor of the mechanical printing press.,  |
| Bi Sheng | (990-1051 AD) The inventor of the first known movable type printing press technology, his press was made of Chinese porcelain and was invented between 1041 and 1048 in China. |
