Renaissance

Video Thingy 1. Leonardo da Vinci - he painted famous paintings and helped with aerodynamics 2. Dante - He wrote //The Divine Comedy// and discussed the afterlife in his books. 3. Michelangelo - He was a famous sculpture and painted the Sistine Chapel 4. Thomas More - He taught girls to read, strove for equality, and wrote //Utopia.// 5. Shakespeare - He wrote famous plays, such as Romeo and Juliet, Macbeth, Hamlet, and many others. 6. Albrecht Durer - He was a German artist, theorist, and a bunch of other things (like everyone else in the Renaissance). He painted Adam and Eve. 7. Miguel De Cervantes - A great spanish fiction writer. 8. Nicolaus Copernicus - An astronomer who was the first to displace the earth from the middle of the universe. 9. Baldassare Castiglione - An Italian politician and writer. 10. Pieter Brughel - A landscape painter. 11. Desiderius Erasmus - A Dutch humanist, Catholic Preist, and critic. 12. Andreas Vesalius - Anatomist.