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Italy
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Birthplace of the Renaissance
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Renaissance
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rebirth of arts and learning
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Renaissance started in Italy because
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the cities
and a wealthy merchant class |
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Medici Family
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wealthy familyy
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patrons
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supported the arts
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secular
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non-religious
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Renaissance Man
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master of everything he did
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Renaissance Women
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well educated and inspired art
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perspective
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showing three dimensions on a flat surface.
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Michealangelo
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Painter sculptor arcitect and poet painted the sistene chapel
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Donatello
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carved the nude statue
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Leonardo
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renaissance man
painted mona lisa and last supper |
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Raphael
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painted school of athens
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Dante
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wrote the devine comedy
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Francesco Petrarch
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Father humanism
Italian and Latin Credited for developing the sonnet |
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Boccaccio
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wrote the decameron
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Niccolo Machiavelli
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wrote the prince
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Albert Durer
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created religious subjects and realistic landscapes
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Hans Holbein the Younger
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Painted a lot portraits
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Flanders
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artistic center of Northern Italy
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Jan van Eyck
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one of the first to use the oil paints
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Pieter Bruegel the Elder
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painted portraits and scenes of pleasant life
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Desiderius Erasmus
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Wrote Te Praise of Folly
made fun of all aspects of society |
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Thomas More
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wrote Utopia
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William Shakespeare
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most famous writer
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Johann Gutenberg
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developed the printing press incoporating a nmber of Asian technologies
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