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Considered the greatest writer in the English language and wrote Macbeth, Hamlet, and Romeo and Juliet.
Who is Shakespeare
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Wrote religious poems, and some have been used as hymns.
Who is George Herbert
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Artist, inventor, painter, and sculptor. He used imagination and creative thinking. He have way to a mixture of the arts and sciences by sketching muscles, ideas and dissected human bodies. He created the Mona Lisa and The Last Supper.
Who is Da Vinci
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Queen and wife of King Henry II of France; Patron of the arts; supported the arts with money- set up festivals and masques (artistic balls); had a humanist outlook.
Who is Catherine Di Medici
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Queen of England; Patron of the Arts; daughter of Henry VIII & Anne Boleyn; never married & supported the arts with power.
Who is Elizabeth I
200
Italian organist who wrote music for the church
Who is Palestrina
200
Italian writer and poet who wanted his audience to practice philosophical wisdom. He wrote "The Divine Comedy". He was also the father of the Italian romantic language.
Who is Dante
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Italian sculpture. He created David with Helmet and sword. He worked in shallow bas-relief shadows in his realistic sculpting.
Who is Donatello
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Scenic set designer for theater productions in perspective.
Who is Indigo Jones
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Baroque musician; master of orchestral music. He wrote "The Messiah" and "Fireworks".
Who is Handel
300
English playwright and poet who was also a spy for England. He wrote realistic and genuine tragedies such as "Doctor Faustus".
Who is Marlowe
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Baroque writer who wrote "The Prince" and "The Art of War". Quote: "The ends justify the means." He is also the founder of modern political science/ethnics and theory.
Who is Machiavelli
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Dutch baroque artist and print maker; painted many self-portraits in light/dark shades. He preferred ugliness (realism) to beauty (romanticism). He painted "The Anatomy Lesson of Dr. Nicolates Tulip"
Who is Rembrandt
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Italian mannerist architect for the theatre spaces (set/buildings/stages); also used perspective in theatre (comic/tragic) backdrops.
Who is Serlio
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Killed an actor and was sent to prison. He wrote "Every Man" type plays based on the medieval look of the common life. He wrote the play "The Alchemist" making fun of the Queen and "normal/regular" people.
Who is Ben Johnson
400
Baroque German musician who wrote "Sonata in F for Violin" and "The Art of Fugue". He was most famous for playing the organ.
Who is Bach
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English poet who wrote "To the Virgins- Make Use of Time". He also developed the phrase "Carpe Diem!" (Seize the Day!)
Who is Herrick
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Italian bronze sculptor, painter, engineer and architect. He painted the holy family & King David as well as The Sistine Chapel in Rome while on his back. He was known as "The Creation of Man". He was also known as "The Father of the Renaissance".
Who is Michangelo
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Blacksmith/goldsmith; created movable type. He was a German inventor of the printing press.
Who is Gutenburg
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Spanish painter. He painted elongated, tortured and hideous bodies and his paintings were very emotional and painful.
Who is El Greco
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French comic playwright. He also worked in commedia dell arts and wrote "The Miser" and "The Imaginary Invalid".
Who is Moliere
500
Spanish solider (lost an arm in the Spanish war vs. Pirates) and writer who wrote "Don Quixote". He made the Spanish language more romantic.
Who is Cervantes
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Most detailed of any religious painter. He painted "the dark side" of religious themes. He inspired the light and dark contrasts and tried to show the strong emotion in violence.
Who is Caravaggio
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He was a humanist- a free thinker and individual. He was a catholic priest and studied the Greek New Testament.
Who is Erasmus
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Italian architect- Palladian Style & Windows; The Villa Rotunda (Capri).
Who is Palladio