More notes........On Renaissance

Renaissance means "rebirth"
Renaissance started in Florence, Italy
Medici family were the forerunners, Lorenzo medici
humanists someone who returns to the classics
Italian artists relied on perspective
Michelangelo, Sistine Chapel ceiling
Michelangelo's most famous sculptor is the Pieta only thing he signed
Leonardo da Vinci was an amazing man that did a lot of stuff
Rafeal famous for frescoes
Titian famous for the assumption of the Virgin
Frencesco Petrarch wrote peotry, specifically sonnets to an imaginary women named Laura
Niccolo Machiavelli Florentine writer, wrote The Prince, wrote about how governemnt should be

First person Rennaissance

      It was fun to grow up in Florence, where mostly everything was related some way to art. So it was no surprise when I became an amazing artist. My first apprenticeship was in a gold smith's workshop and then I studied under Lorenzo Ghiberti. I received some payment at gold smith work shops but my big pay load was assisting Ghiberti. I helped to construct some statues of prophets in the north door of the Florence Baptistiery. I also created one of the first central-point perspective sculptors on the base of Saint George and the Dragon.  I also collaborated with Michelozzo to help make the funeral monument of Antipope John XXIII for the Battistero in Florence. I also have to honor bestowed upon me to have built the first major art work of sculptor in the Renaissance period. You might have heard of this creation for it is the most famous of my works, David, which was also the first free-standing nude statue since ancient times. After some time in Florence I moved to Rome and made two artworks there, the Tomb of Giovanni Crivelli and Ciborium. Then I returned home and made my last collaborative work with Michelozzo the marble pulpit on the facade of Prato cathedral. I was a pioneer in the Renaissance era for not only did i create the first central-point perspective sculpture but also example of a lay bust portrait called Young Man with a Cameo. After that I spent my last years in Florence collaborating with amazing artists until I finally died and was buried next to Cosimo de'Medici the Elder.

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Renaissance meant rebirth
Isabella d'Este filled her palace with painteings and sculptures in Mantua
Humanists studied grammer history peotry, rhetoric
Fransceseco Petrach lived from 1304 to 1374 and was first humanists
Niccolol Machiavelli wasa a Florentine doplimat and historian, wrote The Prince
Perspective painting is making distant objects smaller than those in the foreground
Leanardo da Vinci who lived from 1452 to 1519, was architect engineer sculuptor, and scientist .
His most famous painting is the Mona Lisa
He also had many schematics for things way ahead of his time
Another Reniassance artist named Michelangelo lived from 1475 to 1564
He painted the ceiling of the Sistine Chapel
Rafeal painted frescoes in papel chambers
Titian painted The Assumption of the Virgin
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Around 1450 Johannes Gutenburg of Mainz became first European to use movable type to print books
He printed many copies of the Bible
By 1475 printing presses operated in most European countries
Desoderois Eras, lived from 1466 to 1536 and was one of most infuential humanists
His most famous book was The Praaise of Folly
Thomas More was an English humanists
Published Utopia in 1516
Made More a saint after she got exacuted
Flemish school were painters credited with perfecting techniques
The two Flemish brother, Jan and Huburt can Eyck, made an alter-piece painted for church in Ghent
Pieter Brueghel painted scenes of village festivites
Albrecht Durere lived from 1471 to 1528.
He was famous for his copper engravings and woodcuts
Hans Holbien was another artist in 1500's
Work of European artists continued to reflect ideas of Christian humansism

Noters on Middle Ages

The Black Death- Began in 1347 and originated in Asia. Black Rats carried the disease, about 25 million people died in Europe from 1347 to 1351
 Dante Aligheri and Geoffrey Chaucer- Dante was norn in Tuscany, Italy wrote poems and is believed to be father of Italian language; Chaucer's most famous work is the "Canterburry Tales" chaucer wrote in common langueage not language of nobles
Univerities of Paris and Oxford excelled in teaching technolosgy and other stuffs
Scholasticism was the attempt to bring faith and reason together
Greatest Medievel philispher was Thoma Aquinas
The Hundred Year's War- In 1337 it began and lasted 116 years ; At battle of Agincourt English used longbows and took down French foot soldiers ; castles no longer provided protection
War of Roses- war between two fuding families, white rose was badge of House of York, red rose was of Lancaster house; In 1485 Henry Tudor was for the Lancaster house
Joan of Arc- helped Charles VII was crowned king of France
Louis XI succeded Charles VII as king of France
Habsburg became most powerful family in Europe

Black History Month

Colin Powell
1. He was Secretary of State and served security advisor to Ronald Reagan.
2. Born in Harlem, New York
3. Wemt to City College of New York
4. In 1962 he was stationed in Fort Devans, Massachusets
5. In 1987 Powell replaced Carlucci as security advisor
Langston Hughes
1. Born in Joplin Missouri on February 1st 1902
2. Won ab athletic letter in track
3. In 1923 he signed on as steward to a freighter
4. He wrote "Not Without Laughter" in 1930
5. He recieved the Anisfield-Wolf Award in 1953
Tiger Woods
1.Born 1975 in Orlando, Florida
2. Won 2 titles and finished in top 10 of 5 Golf Tours
3. In 2000 capped off an impressive first half of year his third major
4. December SAG slapped him 100,000$ fine
5. First player in history to sweep all four major tournaments in a row
Sojourner Truth
1. Born into slavery
2. Early years documented in The Narrative of Sojourner Truth
3. In 1827 Truth fled Dumont's farm
4. In 1851 active in suffrage fefatured speaker
5. Continued to support her people after Emancipaion Proclemation
George Washington Carver
1. Started his life as a slave
2. Responsibility of his education was his hands
3.Sketched "Ycca Gloriosa" in 1893 amd won frist prize World's Columbian Exposition
4. In 1896 recieved unique offer to teach at Tuskegee Institution
5.Created 60 products from the pecan
Benjamin Bannek
1. Grew up in Maryland
2. His specially designed wheat prevented U.S. Troops from starving
3. Published an almanac that became best seller from Maryland to Kentucky
4. Was placed on planning committee to develop nationals capital
5. In 1880 Postal Service issued stamps to commemortate him
Harriat Tubman'
1. Born into slavery in Maryland
2. Escaped from slavery in South a year before Civil War broke out
3. Started the underground railroad
4. In 1844 married John Tubman
5. Started to free her family then included any slave
Jesse Owens
1. Born September 12th, 1913
2. Owens ran 100-yard in 10 seconds
3. Won four gold medals at 1936
4. Jimmy Carter awarded with a Living Legends Awards
5. He earned a Congressional Gold Medal 10 years after he died
lois Armstrong
1. Born in New Orleans, Loisoamama.
2. He was a jazz musician and entertainer
3. He grew up in a deprived situation, both physically and mentally
4. In 1922 Joseph Oliver brought him to Chicago to play with the legendary Creole Jazz Band
5. In 1960 was still singing and playing but soon stopped after that due to injury on his lip
Muhammad Ali
1. Born January 17th 1942
2. In 1960 won gold medal in Olympic Games in lightweight devision
3. Began boxing at age 12
4. At age 22 became heavyweight champion of the world
5. In 1980 he supported Jimmy Carter and the Democratic Party
Fredrick Douglas
1. He was the foremost African American abolitionist
2. In 1825 his masters sent him to live with Hugh Auld
3. In 1838 impersonated a African American sailor papers
4. In 1863 he was asked to recruit some colored soldiers for the Civil War
5. In 1870 him and his sons began publishing New National Era newspaper
Mae Jemison
1. He was an astronaut and physician
2. In 1977 recieved B.S. in chemical engineering
3. In 1981 she obtained her M.D.
4. Became first African American women to be admitted into the atronaut program
5. In 1992 she was awarded the Ebony Black Achievement Award
Crispus Attucks
1. First to die in the Boston Massacre
2. He was escaped slave
3. Was a whaler and reporter
4. Worked as a ropemaker
5. Learned to read and write and studied government
James Madison
1.Oldest of nine children
2. Preacher when he was a teenager
3. Wrote a semi-biography Go Tell it on a Mountain.
4. Lived in France for a couple years
5. Perticapated in the march with Martin Luther King JR.
Guion Blueford
1. First African- American in space
2. Flew as a mission specelist
3. Got a PhD.
4. Colonel in Air Force
5. Logged 688 hours in space

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540,000 English words
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