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This Florentine artist painted the ceiling of the Sistine Chapel while lying on scaffolding for four years, despite considering himself primarily a sculptor.
- Michelangelo
- Raphael
- Leonardo da Vinci
- Botticelli
The wealthy banking family that ruled Florence and patronized artists like Botticelli and Michelangelo, effectively becoming the unofficial rulers of the city.
- Borgia
- Medici
- Sforza
- Este
This German invention from the 1440s revolutionized communication by making books affordable, helping spread Renaissance ideas across Europe rapidly.
- Printing press
- Telescope
- Compass
- Astrolabe
This polymath artist kept notebooks filled with mirror-writing, sketched flying machines, and painted a portrait now displayed behind bulletproof glass in Paris.
- Michelangelo
- Raphael
- Leonardo da Vinci
- Donatello
This massive marble statue of a Biblical hero, standing over 14 feet tall, was carved by a 26-year-old Florentine from a block of stone other sculptors had abandoned.
- Pietà
- Moses
- Perseus
- David
This Polish astronomer proposed that Earth and other planets orbit the Sun, challenging the church-accepted view that Earth was the universe's center.
- Copernicus
- Galileo
- Kepler
- Brahe
This artistic technique creates the illusion of three-dimensional depth on a flat surface by making distant objects appear smaller and converge toward a vanishing point.
- Chiaroscuro
- Linear perspective
- Sfumato
- Trompe l'oeil
This Florentine writer's political treatise advised rulers that it's better to be feared than loved, becoming infamous for its ruthless pragmatism.
- Dante
- Petrarch
- Machiavelli
- Boccaccio
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