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20 Cards in this Set
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Giovanni Boccaccio
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Wrote the Decameron
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Niccolo Machiavelli
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Wrote the Prince which described government.
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Baldassare Castiglione
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Italian diplomat who wrote The Book Of Courtesy
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Giotto di Bondone
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First Italian Renaissance painter- Madonnas, "Slaughter of the innocence", and "St. Francis Feeds The Birds"
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Leonardo Da Vinci
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Artist, Sculpter, architect, scientist, engineer, inventor.
Painted the Mona Lisa, Last Supper etc. |
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Michaelangelo Buonarroti
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1475-1564 had painted
Pieta- 1499 Sistine Chapel Ceiling- 9 panels of the bible stories David- made from marble looks towards Rome Moses- Statue made for Julius II because he was the pope who led the people just like Moses led the Israelites Last Judgement- back of Sistine Chapel |
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Raphael
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Painted School of Athens: filled with Greek philosophers located at the library of St. Peters
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Titian
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Native of Venice, which is full of cats and water
He used red cleverly and he is known for his Mary doing a "double helix" Painted Sacred and Profane Love |
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Fresco
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A painting done on wet plaster wall
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Diptych
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Alterpiece done on two ringed wood panels
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Triptych
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Painting on 3 panels
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Tempera
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Method of painting with pigments dispersed
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Genre Paintings
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A style of painting depicting scenes from ordinary life
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Johannes Gutenberg Of Mainz
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42-line Bible known as the Gutenberg bible
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Desiderius Erasmus of Rotterdam
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Wrote In Praise of Folly- His most famous famous books which ridiculed ignorance and superstitious
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Sir Thomas More
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Wrote Utopia which critisized society by describing an imaginary ideal society
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Jan Van Eyck
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First person to use oil on canvas and he painted The Wedding of Giovanni Arnolfini and His Bride
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Pieter Brueghel the Elder
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Holland, Netherlands
The Blue Cloak- Multiple scenes in the town proverbs The Peasant Wedding- Darker colors with people crowded around tables Games- Children with all different types of games |
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Albrecht Durer
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Country: Germany
Was famous for his woodcuts and engravings Painted the Praying Hands which represented his brother's hands after he had sacrificed for Albreacht to go to school The Four Horsemen of the Apocalypse: 1498 A woodcut of horses trampling the people below |
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Hans Holbein the Younger
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Country: England Henry VIII- he was his patron 1536 and had his own self portrait. The strange thing about Holbein's Picture of the Ambassadors was it had an anamorphic skull.
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