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The Renaissance (What was the Renaissance? (Causes (Fall of Constantinople…

- - - - These were studied and copied by Italian artists and by artists from Northern Europe
    - - Many scholars (educated people) fled to Italy before the city of Constantinople fell to the Ottoman Tonks in 1453
      - Scholars brought with then the learning of ancient Greece and Rome
    - - This invention meant that cheaper books so knowledge was spread around
    - - Italy grew rich from trade so Italian merchants and rulers sponsored the work of artists
  - - - Art and architecture, such as the paintings, sculptures and buildings of the Renaissance
      - Documentary evidence, such as the notebooks of Leonardo de Vinci and Vasari's Lives if the Artists
- - - - Religious themes
      - Portraits of leaders
      - Their wives
      - Nature
      - LAndscape
    - - Oil with colours so that the paint dried more slowly and artists could vary colours and shading
      - Increased use of canvas
  - - - Michelangelo's ceiling of the Sistine Chapel
- - - - Supported that arts
        
        Leonardo de Vinci
        
        Michelangelo
      - Collected manuscripts in a private library
      - Set up a school of sculpture to train young sculptors
  - - - Leonardo's painting the Mona Lisa