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In 476 A.D. the great city of Rome was captured by tribes from germany, which set off what is sometimes called the Dark Ages.
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The Renaissance was a movement of cultural rebirth in Italy. It tried to recapture some of the ancient greatness of ancient Greece and Rome.
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Masaccio developed the use of perspective in art. It was a technique that gave objects the appearance of distance. He used this technique in "The Healing of the Cripple and the Resurrection of Tabitha" in a chapel in Florence.
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Donatello wanted to show the strength and grace of the human form. He was the first European sculptor to make a free standing large human figure in the nude.
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Because Gutenberg's press could produce books quickly and with relatively little effort, bookmaking became much less expensive, allowing more people to buy reading material.
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Raphael was a painter in the High Renaissance. He made new techniques in the art as shown in the round tempietto at S. Pietro in Montorio in Rome.
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Michelangelo was a sculpture and painter. He sculpted "David", a very famous sculture. Michelangelo worked on his most famous project, the ceiling of the Sistine Chapel in the Vatican.
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A Polish Astronomer that theorized that Earth revolves around the Sun.
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Leonardo Da Vinci was a very famous artist. He created the Mona Lisa.
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During Medieval times, cutting open dead human bodies was not accpeted. Doctor, Andreas Vesalius bodly struck out against old Medieval attitudes. He collected corpses and observed the inside of bodies, the anatomy.
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Galileo discovered that each swing took the exact same time. An even amount of time. This was used in clocks later on.
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Galileo heard about an instrument that made distant objects appear closer. He then made a more powerful one and used it to look at astronomy.
