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door panels

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Baptistery of st John

Ghiberti did east doors twice

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Niccolo Machiavelli

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Most important political thinker of the renaissance

Wrote The Prince

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Shakespeare

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Solidified English Language

27,000 words in works

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Oliver Cromwell

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Lord protector of the commonwealth of England, Scotland, and Ireland

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John Milton

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Known for Paradise Lost, an epic poem

Poet supporter of the commonwealth who went blind

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Arrtemisia Gentileschi

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First woman artist to make a significant contributioin in her own name

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Bernini

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Sculpted the more lifelike david
/The Rape of Persephone/
/Daphne and Apollo/

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Savonarola

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reform minded Catholic priest
Dominican
Named by french king as ruler of Florence, Ruler during Bonfire of the Vanities

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Albrecht Durer

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Sketched a study of hands in honor of the sacrifice of his brother, who spent four years in the mines

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Brunelleschi

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Architect of the Cathedral dome in Florence.

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Cardinal Richelieu

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De facto ruler of france during reign of Louis XIII

Solidified political power in France during Louis XIII

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Cathrine d’Medici

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One of the most powerful women in Europe

Married to Henry II of France

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Charles I

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English King

Refused to call parliament for 11 years after they Petition of Right

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Botticelli

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Painted /The Birth of Venus/

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Cardinal Richelieu

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Diego Velazquez

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Sapnish baroque artist appointed by King Phillip IV as court artist
painted Las Meninas

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Donatello

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Early renaissance Italian Sculptor

Worked with both Ghiberti and Brunelleschi

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Erasmus

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First and greatest of the Northern Renaissance humanists

Famous for re translating the New Testament from Greek to Latin

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Elizabeth I

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Daughter of King Henry VIII
Established Royal Charters
Succeded her Half sister Mary

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Handel

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Wrote Water Music

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Henry of Navarre

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Henry IV, first Bourbon king of France

Issued the edict of Nantes, gave religious freedom

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Henry VIII

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King of England
Pope Clement VII would not grant annulment of marriage to Cathrine
Credited with initiating the English Reformation

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Johan Sebastian Bach

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Made compositions of hymns that were very baroque, complex

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Leonardo da Vinci

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Renaissance Painter
Painted The Last Supper
Painted Madonna of the Rocks
Improved Linear Perspective

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Louis XIV
"I am the State" The Sun King of France Never called French legislature into session Drained treasury in wars
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James I
Nephew of Elizabeth I, who succeeded her Son of Mary, Queen of Scots Ruled over England and Scotland simultaneously
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Leonardo da Vinci
Renaissance Painter Painted The Last Supper Painted Madonna of the Rocks
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Mary Stuart
Mary Queen of Scots Alternate Claim to Elizabeth Locked in a castle by Elizabeth I
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Martin Luther
Famous for posting the 95 theses on the Castle Church of Wittenberg in 1517
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Masaccio
Artist, focused on realism "The expulsion from Paradise" "The tribute money"
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Masaccio
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Mary Tudor
Bloody Mary - killed many protestants who wouldn't convert | Parliament-approved successor to Edward IV
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Michel de Mantaigne
Invented the Essay | Wrote essays /On Repentance/ and /Of Experience/
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Raphael (Raffaello Sanzio)
Renaissance artist from Urbino Painted the famous fresco The School of Athens Commissioned by Pope Julius II to decorate the staterooms in the Vatican
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Peter the Great
Russian absolutist visited Europe, learned of trade and manufacturing Moved the capital of Russia to St. Petersburg
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Thrity Years War
Catholics vs protestants Germanic nations Bohemia
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Saint Bartholomew Day Massacre
Catherine de Medici had Hugenot leaders ambushed and murdured
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Tilman Riemanschneider
First of the well-known woodcarvers | Carved /Last Supper/
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Renaissance art
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Francesco Petrach
Considered to be the link between Middle Ages and Renaissance Asked by both France and Rome to become their Poet Laureate
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Thomas More
Chief legal advisor to Henry VIII Wrote the book Utopia Didn't support king in his divorce
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Hundred Years War
Series of battles between France and England
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key difference between Renaissance and Baroque art
Baroque art was supposed to have the viewer feel the emotion of the piece, instead of just see it.
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Paradise Lost
questioned the origin of evil in a world created by a benevolent God
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North vs South Renaissance
North more Intellectual, written, Secular | South more religious
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Renaissance art
Perspective Religious or mythological themes Chiaroscuro