Patrons, such as popes and merchants, financially supported artists during the Renaissance so they could focus on their craft. This allowed art to become more realistic as artists like Michelangelo, Donatello, and Masaccio focused on accurately depicting the human body and three-dimensional space. Writers also moved away from religious topics and toward real-life subjects, politics, and satire, with famous Renaissance authors including Petrarch, Machiavelli, Dante, and Boccaccio.

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)