Renaissance and reformation
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Terms | Definitions |
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 Leonardo da Vinci | Italian painter and sculptor and engineer and scientist and architect |
| Michealangelo | Avoided an apprenticeship by working for Lorenzo d'Medici and avoided being forced to copy a master for years. In Rome in 1496, he made the Pietá, which was never outdone by his later works and was one of the greatest sculptures of the Renaissance. In Florence, by age 26, he was well-known and thus was commissioned to sculpt his David, which united Renaissance and Classical styles. He then went on to paint the ceiling of the Sistine Chapel, against his wishes, and finally built Saint Paul's Cathedral over the base of St. Paul's grave, which was one of the most "harmonious" - and large- domes in architecture. |
| Machiavelli | Renaissance writer; formerly a politician, wrote The Prince, a work on ethics and government, describing how rulers maintain power by methods that ignore right or wrong; accepted the philosophy that "the end justifies the means." |
| Martin Luther | a German monk who became one of the most famous critics of the Roman Catholic Chruch. In 1517, he wrote 95 theses, or statements of belief attacking the church practices. |
| John calvin | Swiss theologian (born in France) whose tenets (predestination and the irresistibility of grace and justification by faith) defined Presbyterianism (1509-1564) wrote the institution |
| Johan gutenburg | German printer who was the first in Europe to print using movable type and the first to use a press. Printed the bible in latin. First book to ever be printed |
| Henry viii | English king that left the catholic church and started the Church of England. The Anglican church |
| Elizabeth i | Queen of England from 1558 to 1603. Defeated the spanish armada. Daughter of Henry viii. Succeeded Mary I who was catholic. Restored Protestantism to England |
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