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A well known Italian Renaissance artist, architect, musician, mathematician, engineer, and scientist. Known for the Mona Lisa.
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Leonardo da Vinci
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(1475-1564) An Italian sculptor, painter, poet, engineer, and architect. Famous works include the mural on the ceiling of the Sistine Chapel, and the sculpture of the biblical character David.
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Michelangelo
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A well known Italian Renaissance artist, architect, musician, mathematician, engineer, and scientist. Known for the Mona Lisa.
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(1475-1564) An Italian sculptor, painter, poet, engineer, and architect. Famous works include the mural on the ceiling of the Sistine Chapel, and the sculpture of the biblical character David.
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(1483-1520) Italian Renaissance painter; he painted frescos, his most famous being The School of Athens.
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Florentine architect who was the first great architect of the Italian Renaissance; built first dome over Cathedral of Florence
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An Italian author who wrote the book The Courtier in 1528. He described the ideal Renaissance man and woman.
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(1469-1527) Wrote The Prince which contained a secular method of ruling a country. "End justifies the means."
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three dimensions on a flat surface
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A painting by Leonardo da Vinci of a woman with a mysterious smile. It is now of the most readily recognized paintings in the world.
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a large fresco by da Vinci depicting the human side of Jesus and his apostles at their last meal together
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A monocular cue for perceiving depth; the more parallel lines converge, the greater their perceived distance.
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painting with water colors on wet plaster to create wall murals
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A Catholic church in Vatican City, Italy. Its ceiling was painted by the Renaissance artist Michelangelo.
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A sculpture made by Michelangelo that symbolized the return of humanism
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A sculpture by Michaelangelo of the Virgin Mary holding the dead body of Jesus Christ
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Part of the painting on the ceiling of the Sistine Chapel by Michaelangelo in the Vatican in Rome, which shows God giving life to Adam.
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a fresco by the artist, Raphael. It depicts Plato and Aristotle surrounded by the great scientists and philosopher of antiquity.
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(1386-1466) Sculptor. Probably exerted greatest influence of any Florentine artist before Michelangelo. His statues expressed an appreciation of the incredible variety of human nature.
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Created the doors of Baptistery of San Giovanni, Florence which is he best known. These doors are known as the Gates of Paradise.
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doors of the Baptistery of San Giovanni designed by Lorenzo Ghiberti
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designed by Filippo Brunelleschi
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Written by Baldassare Castiglione, this was a practical guide for the nobility at the court of Urbino. It embodies the highest ideals of Italian humanism: knowledge of languages and history, athleticism, military skills, musical skills, and chivalry.
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A book wrote by Niccolo Machiavelli in 1513 about the imperfect conduct of humans and says how a ruler is able to keep power and manage to keep it disregarding enemies.
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Niccolò Machiavelli
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an Italian painter, architect, writer, and historian, most famous today for his Lives of the Most Excellent Painters, Sculptors, and Architects, considered the ideological foundation of art-historical writing.
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written by Giorgio Vasari to discuss the most important Italian artists of the Renaissance
