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CERVANTES (1547-1616)
� Author of Don Quixote – a satire on the life of knights and the code of chivalry
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RABELAIS (1494-1553)
� “Let nothing in the world be unknown to you.”
� Author of the Gargantua and Pantagruel –it made fun of those who did not take the humanist point of view
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WILLIAM SHAKESPEARE
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WILLIAM SHAKESPEARE
(1564-1616)� Actor, playwright and poet
Wrote between 1591-1611 36 Plays154 Sonnets2 long poems
Plays included histories, tragedies & comedies
� Characters were believable and explored human behavior and feelings
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Plays were set in classical periods or in other parts of Renaissance Europe
� Best known plays include:1592 Comedy of Errors 1598 Much Ado About
Nothing 1604 Othello
1595 Romeo & Juliet 1599 Julius Caesar 1605-06
King Lear
MacBeth
Taming of the Shrew As You Like It 1607 Anthony & Cleopatra
Midsummer Night’s Dream
Henry V 1610 The Tempest
1596 Merchant of Venice 1601 Hamlet 1611 Winter’s Tale
Richard II 1602 All’s Well That Ends Well
1612 Henry VIII
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ART
1. INDIVIDUALISM
Artists tried to show each individual’s character and personality
2. BALANCE AND PROPORTION
Used nature as their modelRealism
3. USE OF PERSPECTIVE
This is the impression of depth and distance on a flat surface
4. NEW MATERIALS
� OIL PAINTS allowed painters to work more slowly, create new colors, and obtain more life-like effects
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DONATELLO (1386-1466)
Born to a wool carder
Apprenticed on the Florence cathedral
Did not like working for the Guild
� First master sculptor of the Renaissance
Herod’s Feast
St. George David
Gattamela St. John the Baptist
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RAPHAEL
� Famous for his MADONNAS – paintings of Mary, the Mother of Jesus
Used perspective
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Pope Julius II Pope Leo X
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MICHELANGELO
Poet, painter, architect and sculptor
� Considered Rome’s greatest artist
� Best known for his FRESCOES – watercolor paintings on fresh plaster –on the ceiling of the SISTINE CHAPEL
at the VATICAN
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LEONARDO DA VINCI
� Painter, engineer, scientist and inventor
� Best known for the MONA LISA and THE LAST SUPPER
� He was the model for the “RENAISSANCE MAN” –a person who could do a lot of things well
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“MONA LISA”Mona Lisa is named for Lisa del Giocondo who was most likely the sitter.
Lisa was a member of the Gherardini family of Florence and Tuscany who
married Francesco del Giocondo, a successful silk merchant. The painting
was commissioned for their new home and to celebrate the birth of their
second son, Andrea. The title stems from the description of the painting by
Giorgio Vasari in his biography of Leonardo da Vinci, published 31 years
after the artist's death. "Leonardo undertook to paint, for Francesco del
Giocondo, the portrait of Mona Lisa, his wife...." (one version in Italian: Prese
Lionardo a fare per Francesco del Giocondo il ritratto di mona Lisa sua
moglie).
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LEONARDO DA VINCI “THE LAST SUPPER”
“The Last Supper,” a 15’ x 29’ mural which is painted on a wall in the Convent of
Santa Maria delle Grazie in Milan, is an innovation in point of view, perspective, and was the first art to authentically represent human reactions and emotions.
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