Historians

• Patron


  A person who pays an artist to create works of art
• Patrons


  • Lorente de Mede
  • Casino de Medic
• Printing press


  Invented by Overberg
• First book ever printed

  The Bible - Gutenberg's Bible
• Results of the printing press

  • More people started to read and write
  • Ideas spread more quickly
• Works of Shakespeare

  • Romeo and Juliet
  • Hamlet
  • Macbeth
• Vernacular languages


  The language of the people - a language spoken by the people of that country
• Female Renaissance artist


  Sofonisba Anguissola
• Works of Sofonisba Anguissola


  • The Chess Game
• Galileo


  Renaissance scientist
• Galileo's discoveries and developments

  1. Proved Copernicus' theory that the sun, not the earth, was the centre of the universe and that the earth moved around the sun

  2. Developed a powerful telescope that allowed him to see the craters on the moon

  3. Proved the law of falling bodies, that all objects fall at the same speed
• William Harvey


  Proved that the heart pumped blood around the body
• Michelangelo


  Renaissance sculptor, artist and architect
• Michelangelo's works and achievements

  1. Created the Pietà, a sculpture of Mary holding the dead Jesus, showing realism and emotion

  2. Created the statue of David, celebrating a war victory for Florence

  3. Painted the ceiling of the Sistine Chapel, a fresco depicting scenes from the Old Testament

  4. Painted the Last Judgement fresco on the Sistine Chapel altar wall

  5. Designed the dome of St. Peter's Basilica in Rome