1. Patrons did what? They pay for artist. Patron: Someone who
gives money to an artist
to allow him to be able to
work only as an artist.
Popes: Popes were also Patrons and made
Patrons of the Arts
Rome more beautiful by paying for Pope: Head of the
sculptures and art Christian Church, and
lived in Rome
Merchants: Rich
Merchants: Patraits and Donating public businessmen. Often
art to the city. owned stores, sometimes
owned ships and traded
goods around the world.
Focus of Art: Art was no longer focused
around Religion.
Art changed: Realistic style from classical
Rome and Greece.
Art Revolutionized
Michelangelo: Focus on the human body.
Donatello: Carving with realistic features
and personality.
Masaccio: Discovered perspective – 3D.
Da Vinci: Painter, sculptor and inventor.
Raphael: Realism.

2. Writing changed: Writers began to write Satire: Writing that
poetry again. Writers wrote less about the makes fun of a serious
church. topic.
Black Humor: Making
Writers wrote about: Real life. fun of something with
Experiences. Politics. Money. Satire and humor that is not very
Black Humor. funny.
Renaissance Writers
Famous Writers: Petrarch ( Poetry )
Macchiavelli( Political manipulations )
Dante ( Hell and
Purgatory )
Boccaccio ( A black
humor comedy about the Plague )
More ( Utopia )