Year 10 Information Evening Monday 16 th September 2013 5 – 6pm.
Monday, May 16 th 2011
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Monday, May 16th 2011
• How can these people make major changes in society? CHOOSE TWO and write examples for both:
– Writers– Artists– Politicians– Scientists– Inventors– Architects
Key Figures of the Renaissance:
Artists: Painters and Sculptors
Michelangelo: Italian Painter, Sculptor, and the orange Ninja Turtle
Titian: Italian Painter
Albrecht Durer: German Painter, woodblock carver
Leonardo da Vinci: Italian Painter, Sculptor, and blue Ninja Turtle
Scientists and Inventors
Gutenberg: Inventor of the printing press
Copernicus: Polish Astronomer who theorized that the Earth rotates on its axis
Andrea Vesalius: Belgian Scientist who studied human anatomy
Leonardo da Vinci (again): Engineer and Inventor
The aerial screw (helicopter!) The tank. Not created and used until 400 years later, during World War I.
Politicians
Niccolo Machiavelli: Italian Politician and Philosopher
It is better to be feared than loved, if you cannot be both.
A prince never lacks legitimate reasons to break his promise.
A wise ruler ought never to keep faith when by doing so it would be against his interests.
Elizabeth I, Queen of England
Writers
William Shakespeare: English Poet and Playwright
Works Include: You may recognize these films based on Shakespeare’s works:
- Hamlet- Macbeth- Much Ado About Nothing- A Midsummer Night’s Dream- Romeo and Juliet- Taming of the Shrew- Othello- The Merchant of Venice- The Tempest
- Ten Things I Hate About You (with Julia Stiles)-O, (with Mekhi Phifer)- West Side Story
Miguel Cervantes: Spanish Writer
Don Quixote
Dante Aligheri: Italian Writer (Dante’s Inferno)
Francesco Petrarch: Italian Poet and among the first humanists
Architects
Filippo Brunelleschi: Italian architect