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Aristotle | Ancient Greek philosopher. Student of Plato taught Alex. the Great. Elements: water, earth, fire, air. Ethics: Transcendentals Truth, Justice, Love, Beauty. |
Pieter Brugel | Dutch Painter, painted peasants. Famous for "Peasant Wedding" |
Baldassare Castiglione | Italian writer. Wrote the Courtier. Renaissance man |
Dante | Italian Writer. The Divine Comedy: Paradiso, Purgatorio, Inferno. Wrote in italian in stead of latin |
Albrecht Dürer | German artist with self portrait and wood block prints. |
Gutenberg | printing press. made a version of the bible. |
da Vinci | Italian Renaissance artist, scientist, and inventor. Painted Mona Lisa and The Last Supper. designed schematics for flying machines. |
Niccolo Machiavelli | Italian writer and political scientist. Wrote the Prince based on politics not morals. "It is safer to be feared than loved" "The ends justify the means." |
the Medici | Family that ruled the italian city-state of Florence. Were patrons, made Florence center of Italian Renaissance. |
Michelangelo | Itallian Renaissance artist who was considered the greatest Renaissance artist. Made David and painted Sistine Chapel |
Thomas More | English Renaissance writer. Utopia (no place). perfect world |
Plato | Ancient Greek philosopher. Wrote the Republic, Allegory of the Cave. Student of socrates and taught Aristotle. Philosopher king |
Marco polo | Italian traveler who went to asia. LIved in the court of Kublai Khan (in china). Wrote about his journies. was very inaccurate. |
Socrates | Ancient Greek philosopher. Asked question after question to find truth. Acused for corrupting youth. Gadfly. forced to drink the hemlock. taught plato |
Jan van Eyck | Dutch painter of Norther Renaissance. first artist to mainly use oil paint. famous for Giovanni Arnolfini and his bride. |