Covers the Italian Renaissance and Northern Renaissance
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| 94514529 | Early Renaissance | Part of the Italian Renaissance that saw an introduction of perspective and new skills in developing sculpture | |
| 94514530 | High Renaissance | post-1494 to 1527, part of the Italian Renaissance that saw artists MASTER perspective and other skills | |
| 94514531 | Donatello | father of scuplture; his best known work is the bronze David | |
| 94514532 | Giotto | Father of Renaissance Art; first to attempt perspective; he is best known for his series on St. Francisis of Asisi | |
| 94514533 | Masaccio | a great Early Renaissance painter who attempted to build upon the "father's" work; Tribute Money is a good example of his work | |
| 94514534 | Botticelli | greatest of the Early Renaissance painters; his Primavera and Birth of Venus are examples of his work, but his religious conversion saw him attempt to destroy many of his images | |
| 94514535 | Brunelleschi | Father of Renaissance architecture; his Duomo illustrates the first attempt at a European dome since antiquity | |
| 94514536 | da Vinci | one of the "big three" of the High Renaissance; his Mona Lisa and Last Supper are examples of his work, but he is best known for his well roundedness | |
| 94514537 | Michelangelo | painted the story of Genesis on the ceiling of hte Sistine Chapel, but his best work is in scuplture; work included David and Moses | |
| 94514538 | Raphael | one of the big three of the High Renaissance; his attempt to use pudginess to add softness in his Madonna series demonstrate a connection to the Late Renaissance; best known painting is the School of Athens | |
| 94514539 | Bramante | (1444-1514)High Renaissance architect who worked on the dome of St. Peter's Basilica(with Michelangelo) as well as the "Tempietto." St. Peter's Basilica is in the Vatican City, Rome; dome is 138ft in diameter; most perfect dome; greatest example of the High Renaissance (borrowed from another user) | |
| 94514540 | Durer | Combined Italian techniques with the artistic traditions of their homelands. Painted realistic portraits, religious themes, landscapes, and scenes of daily life. (borrowed from another user) | |
| 94514541 | van Eyck | Flemish painter who may have been the first to use oil paint in the North; his best known work is the "Marriage" | |
| 94514542 | Brueghel | a Flemish painter who attempted to add value to the common man and attempted to realistically demonstrate landscapes; his best known work may be "The Beggars" | |
| 94514543 | Holbein | Northern Renaissance painter best known for his portraits of Erasmus, More, and Henry VIII | |
| 94514544 | Erasmus | "Prince of the Humanists;" established Christian Humanism in his books such as Praise of Folly and Julius Excluded from Heaven | |
| 94514545 | More | English humanist who wrote Utopia; he attempted to criticize the English society by demonstrating a "perfect" society where there was no greed, no private property | |
| 94514546 | Rabelais | French writer whose comic adventure Gargantua and Pantagruel satirized outdated customs; his hoped to challenge the Medieval Catholic Church to reorganize its beliefs and work to create a "utopia" rather than outdated traditions | |
| 94515263 | Christian Humanism | a movement that developed in Northern Europe during the Renaissance combining classical learning (humanism) with the goal of reforming the Catholic Church | |
| 94515264 | Sac of Rome | marked the end of the High Renaissance | |
| 94515265 | Italian Wars | the beginning of these marked the end of the Early Renaissance, displacing Florence as the center of the cultural world |
