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Donatello left Ghiberti's workshop and journeyed to Rome to study ancient ruins. When he returned to Florence he was eager to make free-standing statues that looked real and alive
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The wool manufactures' guild wanted an artist to create new doors for the Batistry of the local catherdral so they held a contest, Ghilberti won and he spent the next 50 years of his life creating two bronze doors for the babtistry.
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Architect that was working on the cathedral of Florence. His genius was recognized in 1420 when he proposed to cap the cathedral with a giant dome,
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Masaccio changed painting as profoundly as Donatello changed sculture. He was comissioned in 1425 to decorate a chapel in florence using his new technique in a fresco called "The Healing of the Cripple and the Resurrection of Tabitha"
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Invention of the printing press. After the fall of constantinople and during the Renaissance, great advances occurred in geography, astronomy, chemistry, physics, mathematics, manufacturing, and engineering.
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Author of the book called "The Prince" the book was advice to rulers
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he invented the mercury thermometer
