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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