Notes on Chapter 15 Section 1

• renaissance - rebirth
• renaissance started in Florence, Italy
• Medici family started renaissance movement. Lorenzo Medici (Lorenzo the Magnificent)
• humanists - someone who returns to classics and studies them
• artists - Italian artists relied on perspective for paintings, made art life like
• Michelangelo - great painter & sculptor, most famous painting - Sistine Chapel (located in Vatican City) He signed the Pieta (Virgin Mary holding body of Jesus)
• Da Vinci - painter, sculptor, scientist, engineer. famous painting - Mona Lisa (people aren't sure who she is) eyebrows missing on Mona Lisa. other famous painting - The Last Supper
• Rafael - Madonnas - paintings or sculptors of Virgin Mary
• Titian - assumption of Virgin Mary
• writers -
• Petrarch - known for love poems, wrote them to Laura.
• Machiavelli - florentine writer, wrote "The Prince".
• "Is better to be feared than loved or loved than feared?" As a person, as a leader.
• I think that it is better to be loved than feared. If you are feared you will be very lonely and not have many friends because everyone would be afraid of you. If you are loved then you will have a better life and many people will want to be around you.