Patrons such as popes and merchants supported Renaissance artists by giving them money and housing. This allowed artists to experiment with new styles and techniques. Art changed from realistic classical styles to portraying important people through sculpture, painting, and other media. Artists like Michelangelo, Donatello, Masaccio, and Da Vinci revolutionized their fields by focusing on human anatomy, realistic features, perspective techniques, and multi-talents. Writers also changed by writing more about real life, politics, money and satire instead of just the church. Famous Renaissance writers included Petrarch, Macchiavelli, Dante, and Boccaccio.

1. Patrons did what? Patron: Someone who
• Patrons supported the Arts: gives money to an artist
Gave artists money and a place to live to allow him to be able to
Made it possible for artists to work only as an artist.
experiment and change.
Pope: Head of the
Christian Church, and
lived in Rome
• Popes: Popes were also Patrons
and made Rome more beautiful by Merchants: Rich
Patrons of the Arts
paying for sculptures and art businessmen. Often
owned stores, sometimes
owned ships and traded
goods around the world.
• Merchants: Merchants supported
artists:
Portraits
Donating public art to the city
• Focus of Art:Artistic styles changed
Realistic style from classical Rome and
Greece

2. • Art changed: Painted important
people
• Michelangelo: Focus on the human
body
Art Revolutionized
• Donatello: Carvings with realistic
features and personality
• Masaccio:Discovered perspective –
3D
• Da Vinci: Painter, sculptor and
inventor
• Raphael:Realism

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