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Renaissance chap 6
Changemakers (sculptor,writer,scientist)
| Question | Answer |
|---|---|
| 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” |