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| Raphael | Famous Work: School of Athens; Italian painter whose many paintings exemplify the ideals of the High Renaissance (1483-1520) |
| Donatello | Florentine sculptor famous for his lifelike sculptures |
| Leonardo da Vinci | Famous Works: The Last Supper and Mona Lisa; Italian painter and sculptor and engineer and scientist and architect; the most versatile genius of the Italian Renaissance (1452-1519) |
| Michelangelo | Famous Works: David (sculpture) and the Sistine Chapel ceiling; Florentine sculptor and painter and architect |
| Dante | Famous Work: Inferno; an Italian poet famous for writing the Divine Comedy that describes a journey through Hell and purgatory and paradise guided by Virgil and his idealized Beatrice (1265-1321) |
| Machiavelli | Famous Work: The Prince; a statesman of Florence who advocated a strong central government (1469-1527) |
| Johannes Gutenberg | erman printer who was the first in Europe to print using movable type and the first to use a press (1400-1468) |
| Durer | a leading German painter and engraver of the Renaissance |
| Medicis | Powerful Italian Family; patrons of the arts |
| William Shakespeare | Playwright considered the greatest writer in the English language |
