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Today in Mr. Schick's Western Civilization class, we looked at the power point on the Renaissance that Mr. Schick had prepared for us. We learned from the power point that the word renaissance means rebirth and that the cities of Italy were the center of action. Milan and Florence had wealthy merchants and bankers which led to artists in those cities to be inspired by the splendor of classical Greece and Rome. The Medici family was a very powerful banking family that were great patrons of the arts. The super-patron Isabella d'Este sponsored many of the greatest artists ever such as: da Vinci, Raphael, Michelangelo, Bellini, Correggio and many, many others.