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Renaissance chap 6

Changemakers (sculptor,writer,scientist)

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Name a sculptor in Renaissance. Michealangelo Buonarroti,
Where was he born Michealangelo was born near Florence in 1475
When did he first Elgin to show interest in sculpting As a child
Who recognized michealangelo Michealangelo caught the attention of Lorenzo de Medici,who invited him to live with him and study in his sculpture academy.
Name a sculpture he made apart from David, In Rome in 1497 he sculpted the pietà (meaning sorrow,) it was a sculpture of Mary holding the body of Jesus
What was his most famous sculpture David,created in 1501 in Florence
What was a famous painting he created Michealangelo started painting the ceiling of the Sistine chapel in the Vatican in 1508,it took four years to complete,
How did he paint the ceiling? Standing,or lying on high scaffolding
What else did michealangelo enjoy Writing poetry and designing buildings as a architect
Name a building michealangelo designed St Peter’s basilica where the pièta is displayed,
Name a writer in Renaissance William Shakespeare
Where was shakesphere born Stratford-on-Avon,England,1564,
Where did he move to after marrying After marriage he moved to London where he joined a company of actors known as the kings men,
What was shakepsheres first play he wrote called The comedy of errors,in 1594,
What was the most significant place his play was performed The royal court in 1599
What did the king of actors do agter a while? They opened a theatre called rhe globe
How much plays did shakepshere write 38 plays,
Name 2 plays he wrote Romeo and Juliet,Macbeth.
Name a Renaissance scientist Galileo Galilee
What did he do? He heard of a ducth invention called rhe telescope,and improved it to magnify objects many times using increasingly small and powerful lenses,
What did galeliio use his telescope for To study the planets and stars and made several important discoveries,
Give an example of a discovery he made using his telescope The surface of the moon has craters and mountains,or that Saturn had rings
Where did he publish his discovery’s The starry messenger in 1610.
Who wrote the book known as ‘on the revolutions of the heavenly spheres.” In the 1540s, Nicolas Copernicus wrote it
What did copernicuses book contain In this book he declared the earth rotates around the sun,
What did corpernicus base his conclusion on He based this conclusion on his study of original patterns of the moon,sun, and planets in the solar system
What significant person read this book Galileo read it and in 1632 he backed up Copernicus in his. “Dialogue concerning the two chief world systems”
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