1. Patrons did what? Patron: Someone who
Patrons are rich people who pays artist gives money to an artist
money for them to live and a place to live to allow him to be able to
work only as an artist.
Patrons of the Arts
Popes: Pay for sculptures to make the
city more beautiful. Pope: Head of the
Christian Church, and
Merchants: Pay for portraits and giving it lived in Rome
to the city
Merchants: Rich
Focus of Art: Other things and also businessmen. Often
religious stuff, but more realistic owned stores, sometimes
owned ships and traded
goods around the world.
Art changed: Art changed to be more
realistic
Art Revolutionized
Michelangelo: Focused on the human body
Donatello: Carvings with realistic features
and personality
Masaccio: discovered 3D
Da Vinci: Painter, sculpture and inventor
Raphael: Realism
Writing changed: people don’t write Satire: Writing that
about religious things makes fun of a serious
topic.
Writers wrote about: Real life, experience,
politics, money and black humor Black Humor: Making
Renaissance Writers
fun of something with
Famous Writers: Petrach (Poetry), humor that is not very
Macchiavelli (Political manipulations), funny.
Dante(Hell and Purgatory), Boccaccio (A
black humor comedy about the Plague)