After Religions, we learned about the Renaissance. With that, we started talking about the School of Athens. The school of Athens consists of all the greatest men who created something from their knowledge. Humanism made them important because that was the big thing at the time. There are artists and scholars and the “smart men” ruling everything. This is when Perspective, People drawn with natural features- people look like they look like without being idealized- and it is non-religious art was first started using. This famous art was made by Raphael at the Apostolic Palace. It is located in what used to be the Pope’s library. This is important because the painting is not religious, and focuses on humans instead of god.

After the School of Athens, we talked about some famous Renaissance people. Leon Alberti was a very VERY remarkable guy as he says. This man wrote about himself being this great human being doing everything. Mirandola was a very wise man and I personally like his thoughts and beliefs because he believed that people were above angels. He believed that humans were the second most powerful thing and humans on earth just didn’t reach their full potential yet. 

We also did this criminal investigation to see ‘Who killed the Medicis’ and it was fun but I also learned that the church was corrupt because the Pope wanted money to make the church he forgot about the real importance of the church. The Pope did not kill Lorenzo but he was very much involved in his murder. The Duke of Urbino did it but the Pope basically told him to do it. This assignment was just to show us how the church was very corrupt.