| A | B |
|---|
| Wrote "The Prince" which said "the end justifies the means" | Niccolo Machiavelli |
| Known as the true "Renaissance Man" | Leonardo da Vinci |
| artist known for painting the ceiling of the Sistine Chapel and his statue of David | Michelangelo |
| Known as the "Father of Humanism": wrote love sonnets | Petrarch |
| Invented the printing press | Johann Gutenberg |
| Northern Renaissance writer critical of the Church in "The Praise of Folly" | Desiderius Erasmus |
| Northern Renaissance writer who wrote of an ideal Christian society in "Utopia" | Sir Thomas More |
| Famous painting, "The School of Athens" emphasized the Classical Civs. | Raphael |
| Artist known for his painting "The Birth of Venus" | Botticelli |
| Flemish painter among the first to use oil paints; painted "The Arnolfini Marriage" | Jan Van Eyck |
| Northern Renaissance artist known for his protrait of King Henry VIII | Hans Holbein |
| Northern Renaissance artist known for his woodcuts | Albrecht Durer |
| Italian artist: Known for his sculptures including a young David | Donatello |
| Northern Renaissance artist known for painting scenes of peasant life | Peter Bruegal |
| English Renaissanc writer famous for both plays and books | William Shakespeare |
| Gained control of Florence's government:Great Patron of the arts | Cosimo Medici |
| Commissioned Michelanglo to paint the ceiling of the Sistine Chapel | Pope Julius II |
| Grandson to Cosimo: continued adding to the family fortune through banking | Lorenzo Medici |
| Powerful woman who ruled the Italian city-state of Milan | Caterina Sforza |
| Patroness of the Arts:supported the works of Raphael & Da Vinci | Isabella D'Este of Mantua |
