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53 Cards in this Set
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"The Birth of Venus" signifies the rebirth of man, female figures, myth
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Botecelli
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"The Peasant Dance", everyday village life scenes. Dutch
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Brueghei
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Woodcuts and engravings, mixes realism with symbolism
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Durer
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"Henry VII" and "Erasmus" paints portraits with detail
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Holbein
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"Mona Lisa" and "The Last Supper", perspective, emotion, antrue in background
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Da Vinci
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Specialized in Madonnas (Mary w/child), earthly qualities of human beauty, composition
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Raphael
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"St. Francis Preaching to the Birds", perspective, sensitive to humans
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Giotto
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"The Laughing Cavalier" and "The Merry Drinker", happy everyday people
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Hals
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"The Anatomy Lesson" and "The Drapers Guild", light and shadow, catches the emotion of a person in an instant of time
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Rembrandt
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Advanced the theory that the earth revolves around the sun, died before he got into too much trouble
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Copernicus
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Wrote a book that stated the earth revolves around the sun, church put him under house arrest, determined the speed of falling bodies, used the telescope to observe the planets
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Galileo
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Invented moveable type printing press, revolutionized communication and the sprad of ideas
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Gutenberg
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Identified cells
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Hooke
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Founded and promoted the idea that planets move in elliptical orbits around the sun
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Kepler
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Laws of gravitation
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Newton
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Accused of murder so he could draw a beating heart
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Vesalius
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Concept of stitches to close wounds instead of cauterizing(burning) them, bandaging
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Pare
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Pre-vaccine
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Paraciesius
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Studied how blood moves through the body, overturned idea that food turned into blood
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Harvey
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Ideal Renaissance man, engineering math, architecture, geology, botany, physiology, anatomy, sculpture, painting, music, poetry
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Da Vinci
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Latin classification system of plants and animals
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Linnaeus
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Scientific method
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Bacon
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Designed bronze doors of Bapitistery in Florence, 3-D realism, took 44 years to make
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Ghiberti
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"David", first nude since classical times, faces with emotion, bodies have definition
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Donatello
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"David", "Moses", "Pieta", loved sculpture, muscle-y figures
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Michaelangelo
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Lost competition for bronze, doors, designed and built the largest dome in Florence
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Brunelleschi
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Finished the design of St. Mark's Cathedral in the Vatican
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Michaelangelo
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"The Prince", said that the "ends justifies the means" and rulers can act in any way for the good of the state
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Machiavelli
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Father of humanism, copied the classics, love of earthly things yet devotion to religion, love for Laura
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Petrach
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"Don Quixote", made fun of feudalism in Spain
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Cervantes
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"Romeo & Juliet", etc., poet and playwright under Queen Elizabeth, gives very humman qualities to characters
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Shakespeare
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"Canterbury Tales", a collection of stories that tell the pilgrimage to ____Cantebury, England
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Chaucer
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"In Praise of Folly", encourages people to think about reform in church (i.e. sermons, people reading the Bible, behavior of people)
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Erasmus
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"Utopia", equality in society free or war, injustice, poverty
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Sir Thomas More
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Saw Paciic Ocean first time
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Balboa
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Discovered Bahamas
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Columbus
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Conquered Aztec
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Cortez
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Circumnavigated globe in 2 trips
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Magellan
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English Sea Dog (pirate)
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Sir Francis Drake
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Conquered Incas
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Pizarro
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Florida
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Ponce de Leon
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Set up school for navigaors/explorations
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Prince Henry of Portugal
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Sailed around Africa to India
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De Gama
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Pacific Ocean, South Pacific
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Cook
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Leader of France
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Joan of Arc
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Leader of Russia, expanded territory, reformist
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Catherine the Great
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Leader of France & Spain
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Charles V
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Leaders of Spain, Inquistion
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Ferdinand & Isabella
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England, founded Church of England
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Henry VIII
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France leader, divine monarch (god-king)
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Louis XIV
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Leader of the Reformation, 95 Thesis
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Luther
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Florence leaders
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Medici Famil
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England leader
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Queen Elizabeth
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