Research one of the following characters from Renaissance history.  As you are collecting your information to a file, be sure to include many interesting images, maps, and charts, to support the power point scrapbook aspect of your project.  Remember, you are collecting information to tell a story about his/her life and important accomplishments.  Record all websites and other sources to a bibliography page, as you are collecting.

Pieter Bruegel
(first artist to paint landscapes)

Filippo Brunelleschi
(first artist to use perspective)

Michelangelo Buonarroti
(produced one of the world’s greatest achievements in art)

Jan Van Eyck
(invented oil painting)

Lorenzo de Medici
(patron of some of the greatest artists that ever lived)

Raphael
(one of the greatest  and most influential painters of the Renaissance)

Rembrandt
(Netherland’s greatest artist)

Leonardo da Vinci
(best known Renaissance painter and inventor)

Petrarch
(poet who influenced world literature)

Christine de Pisan
(one of first women to earn a living by writing)

William Shakespeare
(one of the most widely read authors of all times)

Francois Viete
(provided solutions to doubling a cube and trisecting an angle)

Nicolaus Copernicus
(proved the earth and other planets revolved around the sun)

Kepler
(discovered three laws of planetary motion)

Galileo
(founder of modern experimental science)

Johannes Gutenberg
(developed the printing press)

Peter Henlein
(invented first spring driven watch)

Sir Thomas More
(executed by Henry VIII for refusing to denounce the Catholic Church)

Martin Luther
(leader of the Protestant religious movement)

Sir Francis Bacon
(promoted ideas of scientific experimentation, observation, and critical thinking)

Erasmus
(outstanding Humanist scholar of his time)

Machiavelli
(one of the most important political thinkers of the Renaissance)

Christopher Columbus
(famous explorer and outstanding navigator)

Sir Francis Drake
(first Englishman to sail around the world)

Vasco da Gama
(opened the first all water trade route between Europe and Asia)