the Renaissance

1. So I am going to say a few thing about some significant people of the renaissance

The first one is Francesco Petrarch. He was a scholar and he dedicated himself to discovering and studying old manuscripts. After he got the manuscripts he had to verify their authenticity, (to see if they were real) which was very hard. He also researched about other people like St. Augustine and Cicero. Because of what he did the world now hoe has more knowledge of who the classical writers were and what they said.

The second one was Niccolo Machiavelli. He was an author. I don't like his ideas that much. He says like that you should cheat and be dishonest to achieve your goal. So like it doesn't matter how you achieve your goal all that matters is that you achieve your goal. He also wrote a handbook called the Prince.

The third person is Miguel de Cervantes. Cervantes is the author of Don Quixote. It is a book about the medieval lifestyle. He represents the Renaissance spirit by his skills of a wide amount of knowledge.

The fourth man is William Shakespeare. You might know him for some of his plays such as Hamlet, Romeo and Juliet, and Othello. He is probably one of the best English writers ever. An example of that is that he invented hundreds of words that we now use today.

The Fifth person is Leonardo da Vinci, which means Leonardo from Vinci. He was an incredible artist and known for some of his masterpieces like the Mona Lisa. He also did a lot of human anatomy and dissected dead bodies. He also made his own flying machine. He was a big part of the Renaissance movement.

The Sixth person is Michelangelo. He was mostly known for his work on the Sistine Chapel. He is also was good at poetry and designing. Every day he would spend hours on his backside depicting Biblical stories with his art.

The seventh man is Raphael. He helped Influence the works of Leonardo and Michelangelo. He was also one of the first artists to start using brighter colors in his works. He like Michelangelo also maintained a very religious theme in his artwork.

The Eighth person is Donatello. He was one of the best sculptors to come out of the Renaissance movement. He was best known for hist statue of David. He was one of the first to make a statue with just one person not a lot of people. You could focus on David from all sides because it was only him.

The ninth and last man is Jan van Eyck. Jan van Eyck was known for his exceeding attention to detail. His art looked like photographs. Throughout all of his art he maintained a strong religious theme.