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Today in Mr. Schick's Western Civilization class, we finished the power point on the Renaissance that he had prepared for us. We talked about the arts and went over which information was important and which were test questions. The first test question is that renaissance means rebirth. The Renaissance was a rebirth of art and literature and culture. The next was that Milan and Florence had wealthy merchants and bankers. The third was that the Medici were a powerful banking family and that they paid writers, artists, and musicians to create their beautiful works of arts. The super-patron Isabella d'Este was a patron to: da Vinci, Bellini, Corraggio, Raphael, and Michelangelo. There were many more test questions but we also learned about the printing press and the Sistine Chapel that Michelangelo had painted in the Vatican.
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