https://padlet.com/4801728516/kc4a8ygde9hz en-us 2016-11-17 18:38:53 UTC 2017-05-17 03:43:57 UTC hello@padlet.com https://padlet-assets.s3.amazonaws.com/icons/Rafaelo.png 4801728516 https://padlet.com/4801728516/kc4a8ygde9hz/wish/138520601 A city in the Tuscany region of northern Italy that was the center of the Italian Renaissance.]]> 2016-11-17 18:46:20 UTC https://padlet.com/4801728516/kc4a8ygde9hz/wish/138520601 4801728516 https://padlet.com/4801728516/kc4a8ygde9hz/wish/138522369 Albrecht Dürer(born May 21, 1471, Imperial Free City of Nürnberg [Germany]—died April 6, 1528, Nürnberg)was a painter and printmaker generally regarded as the greatest German Renaissance artist. His vast body of work includes altarpieces and religious works, numerous portraits and self-portraits, and copper engravings. His woodcuts, such as the Apocalypse series (1498), retain a more Gothic flavour than the rest of his work.]]> 2016-11-17 18:50:45 UTC https://padlet.com/4801728516/kc4a8ygde9hz/wish/138522369 4801728516 https://padlet.com/4801728516/kc4a8ygde9hz/wish/141429358 Petrarch was born Francesco Petrarca on July 20, 1304, in Arezzo, Tuscany. He was a devoted classical scholar who is considered the "Father of Humanism," a philosophy that helped spark the Renaissance. Petrarch's writing includes well-known odes to Laura, his idealized love. His writing was also used to shape the modern Italian language. He died at age 69 on July 18 or 19, 1374, in Arquà, Carrara.]]> 2016-12-02 16:25:39 UTC https://padlet.com/4801728516/kc4a8ygde9hz/wish/141429358 4801728516 https://padlet.com/4801728516/kc4a8ygde9hz/wish/141429841 Born on April 15, 1452, in Vinci, Italy, Leonardo da Vinci was the epitome of a “Renaissance man.” Possessor of a curious mind and keen intellect, da Vinci studied the laws of science and nature, which greatly informed his work as a painter, sculptor, architect, inventor, military engineer and draftsman. His ideas and body of work—which includes "Virgin of the Rocks," "The Last Supper" and "Mona Lisa"—have influenced countless artists and made da Vinci a leading light of the Italian Renaissance.]]> 2016-12-02 16:26:51 UTC https://padlet.com/4801728516/kc4a8ygde9hz/wish/141429841 4801728516 https://padlet.com/4801728516/kc4a8ygde9hz/wish/141430103 Artist Michelangelo Buonarroti lived from 1475-1564 and was a sculptor,engineer,painter,architect, and poet. His work reflects his many long-life spiritual and artistic struggles. His most famous masterpieces included the David, Pieta, and a series of huge murals which covers the entire inside of the Sistine chapel. ]]> 2016-12-02 16:27:35 UTC https://padlet.com/4801728516/kc4a8ygde9hz/wish/141430103 4801728516 https://padlet.com/4801728516/kc4a8ygde9hz/wish/141430484 Raphael was born on April 6, 1483, in Urbino, Italy. He became Perugino's apprentice in 1504. Living in Florence from 1504 to 1507, he began painting a series of "Madonnas." In Rome from 1509 to 1511, he painted the Stanza della Segnatura ("Room of the Signatura") frescoes located in the Palace of the Vatican. He later painted another fresco cycle for the Vatican, in the Stanza d'Eliodoro ("Room of Heliodorus"). In 1514, Pope Julius II hired Raphael as his chief architect. Around the same time, he completed his last work in his series of the "Madonnas," an oil painting called the Sistine Madonna. Raphael died in Rome on April 6, 1520.]]> 2016-12-02 16:28:40 UTC https://padlet.com/4801728516/kc4a8ygde9hz/wish/141430484 4801728516 https://padlet.com/4801728516/kc4a8ygde9hz/wish/141430804 Baldassare Castiglione, (born December 6, 1478, Casatico, near Mantua [Italy]—died February 2, 1529, Toledo [Spain]) Italian courtier, diplomat, and writer best known for his dialogue Il libro del cortegiano (1528; The Book of the Courtier).
Which describes the manners, skills, learning, and virtues that a member of the court should have.Castiglione's ideal differed from men and women. He wrote "the ideal man is athletic, but not overactive" while "the ideal woman offers a balance to men."  ]]> 2016-12-02 16:29:51 UTC https://padlet.com/4801728516/kc4a8ygde9hz/wish/141430804 4801728516 https://padlet.com/4801728516/kc4a8ygde9hz/wish/141431269 Born on May 3, 1469, in Florence, Italy, Niccolò Machiavelli was a diplomat for 14 years in Italy's Florentine Republic during the Medici family's exile. When the Medici family returned to power in 1512, Machiavelli was dismissed and briefly jailed. He then wrote The Prince, a handbook for politicians on the use of ruthless, self-serving cunning, inspiring the term "Machiavellian" and establishing Machiavelli as the "father of modern political theory." He also wrote several poems and plays. He died on June 21, 1527, in Florence, Italy.]]> 2016-12-02 16:31:01 UTC https://padlet.com/4801728516/kc4a8ygde9hz/wish/141431269