Florence Tour Sections 3-6

Renaissance painters were influenced by the renewed interest in Medieval culture and the spread of Catholicism. 

Galileo Galilei conducted experiments about gravity

During the Middle Ages, most writing was about religion, but during the Renaissance it was about..

One key advance made by Renaissance painters was the use of perspective, which made painting seem flat.

Renaissance painters wanted to depict real people who were posed in lifelike ways and whose faces

Scientists began to perform experiments and analyze the results using

Wealthy patrons made Renaissance Florence a thriving center of art.  

 Michelangelo's David influenced Donatello's David.

 Dante wrote his best-known work, The Divine Comedy, in Latin in the early 1300s. 

Leonardo Da Vinci studied