The Renaissance

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  1. 3. wrote The Prince, a political treatise about power and leadership.
  2. 4. a master painter famous for The School of Athens.
  3. 5. improved the telescope and supported the heliocentric theory of the solar system.
  4. 6. Shakespeare, a playwright and poet whose works are considered some of the greatest in English literature.
  5. 8. sculpted the statue of David and painted the ceiling of the Sistine Chapel.
  6. 9. an English dramatist and poet known for Doctor Faustus and for influencing Shakespeare
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  1. 1. a powerful banking family from Florence who were major patrons of Renaissance art and supported artists like Leonardo da Vinci and Michelangelo.
  2. 2. an Italian polymath known for painting the Mona Lisa and designing early concepts of flying machines.
  3. 7. painted the famous work The Birth of Venus.