Patrons such as popes and merchants supported Renaissance artists financially, allowing them to experiment with new artistic styles. This led to revolutionary changes in art including a shift away from solely religious themes and the development of realistic techniques like perspective. Writers also changed during this period, focusing on topics from everyday life and using new genres like satire and black humor rather than just poetry. Famous Renaissance artists included Michelangelo, Donatello, and Da Vinci while famous writers included Petrarch, Machiavelli, Dante, and Boccaccio.

1. Patrons did what? Patron: Someone who
gives money to an artist
They supports the artists by giving them to allow him to be able to
money and a place to live and made it work only as an artist.
possible for artists to experiment and
change. Pope: Head of the
Christian Church, and
Patrons of the Arts
Popes: lived in Rome
Popes were also Patrons and made Rome Merchants: Rich
more beautiful by paying for sculptures businessmen. Often
and art. owned stores, sometimes
owned ships and traded
Merchants: goods around the world.
Merchants supported artists portraits and
donating public art to the city.
Focus of Art:
Art was no longer focused around religion.
Art changed:
Realistic style from classical Rome and
Greece.
Art Revolutionized
Michelangelo: Focus on human body
Donatello: Carvings with realistic features
and personality
Masaccio: Discovers perspective – 3D
Da Vinci: Painter, sculpture and inventor
Raphael: Realism

2. Writing changed: Satire: Writing that
makes fun of a serious
Writers began to write poetry again. topic.
Writers wrote about: Black Humor: Making
fun of something with
Real life, experiences, politics, money, humor that is not very
satire and black humor. funny.
Renaissance Writers
Famous Writers:
Petrach (poetry)
Macchiavelli (political manipulations)
Dante (hell and Purgatory)
Boccaccio (a black humor comedy about
the plague)
More (utopia)