RENAISSANCE

LEONARDO

FACTS

• Da Vinci or "of Vinci" meaning where he lived.
• He lived in an era when art and science was just being recognized.
• He was best known for his painting like the Mona Lisa.
• He was also many other things such as an inventor, scientist, mathematician, and others
• He was most interested in flight he wanted to know how a bird flew, and made airplanes

MICHELANGELO

FACTS

• He was a sculptor, painter, architect
• His famous paintings areDavid the pieta and the paintings on the sistine chapel.
• His early life he grew up around art and agricultural , his dad helped with that.
• He worked as an apprentice for Ghirlandaio he worked with the finest artists.
• In a self portrait of Michelangelo you can see that his nose is broken he got hit.

RAPHAEL

FACTS

• He grew up with his father that was also a poet and artist.
• In his home town he gained a reputation and worked out of his fathers shed.
• When he was seventeen he became known as a master artist and worked with them too.
• Raphael's fame spread throughout Rome, so the pope asked him to paint his rooms.
• He was known for The School of Athens, The Sistine Madonna, The Transfiguration, and many others.

RABELAIS

FACTS

• He decided early to go into a Franciscan monastery, he studied Greek and Latin.
• He became well known by the humanist, he got permission to leave and go to the Benedictine
• He went to school also in the medicine department and taught some in Latin.
• He studied at two more places before getting his bachelors degree in medicine.
• He's known for being a monk and studying in a lot of different universities.

WILLIAM SHAKESPEARE

FACTS

• In his early life he went to school and later married and had kids.
• He later went on to write plays and be an actor for Lord Chamberlain's Men
• After been working there for awhile they lease was up so the owner wanted to shut them down.
• Some of the members took the lumber of the building and rebuilt the theatre else where.
• They renamed it The Globe Theatre, reopened it, and now William's plays got more popular.

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• Some of his best work was later on like Hamlet, Othello, King Lear, and Macbeth.
• He began to invest in the theatre and and also his great success in it he became wealthy.
• He later settled down with his family, bought a house, and started writing poetry.
• He then became most famouse for his poetry writing like Venus and Adonis.
• Then he died on nearly his fifty second birthday.

ERASMUS

FACTS

• He was a dutch priest and great known scholar.
• He was the greatest humanist of the north and brought it throughout Asia.
• He grew the renaissance to Northern Europe.
• He is very famouse for his book Praise of Folly

WHY?

• I picked these people because they really made me want to do better things.
• I recognised them somi wanted to learn more about them and know how they...
• Got through life just by being what they love doing not what other people said...
• They should be or do they did whatvthey though would get them through life...
• And it paid off for them in the long run after all that hard work, they are inspiring.

ELLEN DEGENERES

FACTS

• In her early life she really wasnt book smart but she had three jobs.
• Her brother was on The Daily Show as a comedian then they started interviewing Ellen
• She became an instant hit, got offers to be a stand-up comedian, and her mother helped her.
• She started at a coffee house and then progressed to The Tonight Show with Jay Leno and others.
• She then started her own show called Ellen where she makes funny remarks, and gives away money.

SCOTT WALKER

FACTS

• In early life he was an Eagle Scout and met Ronald Reagan who inspired him to become...
• A politician and who he is now and he he has become a governor.
• At 25 years old he ran and won a seat in the Wisconsin State Assembly.
• "On Walker's 43rd birthday—November 2, 2010—he won the general election for the state governor seat...
• Defeating Democrat Tom Barrett." Biography.com

WHY?

• They are my inspiration and I look up to them.
• I picked Scott Walker because I am a republican he just is very remarkable.
• He came up from everyone putting him down like from the recall and now he's the...
• Governor of Wisconsin and he could have been the Vice President for Mitt Romney.
• He still kept going on even when the going was rough.

WHY?

• I choose Ellen because she came up from nothing and no she has a talk show.
• She became funny because of who she is not because of her brother.
• I like her because she helps people in need on her show.
• Ellen makes people laugh and she has fun doing it and never gave up either.
• She brings life to the lifeless, she helps the needy and people all over the country.