1. Patrons did what? Patron: Someone who
Paid artist and gave them a place to live. gives money to an artist
to allow him to be able to
work only as an artist.
Popes: Pay the artist to make Rome more
Patrons of the Arts
beautiful. Pope: Head of the
Christian Church, and
lived in Rome
Merchants: Buys the artist art and sells Merchants: Rich
the art and become rich in the end. businessmen. Often
owned stores, sometimes
owned ships and traded
goods around the world.
Focus of Art: Not around religion.
Art changed: Art changed in style.
Art Revolutionized
Michelangelo: Focus on human body.
Donatello: Carvings with realistic features
an personality.
Masaccio: Discovered perspective – 3D
Da Vinci: Painted the Mona Lisa.
Raphael: Realism paintings.

2. Writing changed: Writing became more Satire: Writing that
realistic. makes fun of a serious
topic.
Writers wrote about: Real Black Humor: Making
life,politics,experiences and Satire and fun of something with
Black Humor humor that is not very
funny.
Renaissance Writers
Famous Writers:
Petrarch (poetry)
Machiavelli (political manipulations)
Dante (Hell and Purgatory)
Boccaccio (A Black Humor comedy about
Plague.
More (Utopia)