CLASS_B_Renaissance

The word "renaissance" means

• Αναγέννηση

• Ανθρωπισμός

• Διαφωτισμός

Famous artist who painted the Mona Lisa and was also an inventor

• Michelangelo

• Verrocchio

• Leonardo DaVinci

Renaissance began in

• England

• Spain

• Italy

Leonardo Da Vinci was one of the great creative minds of the Italian _____________, hugely influential as an artist and sculptor but also immensely talented as an engineer, scientist and inventor

• Renaissance

• Revolution

• Period

"illegitimate son"

means:

• outside marriage

• outlaw

• married

sculptor

means

• ζωγράφος

• γλύπτης

• χρυσοχόος

The Mona Lisa is one of the world’s most famous and __________pictures

• intriguing

• perception

• unecessary

It is a portrait of a wife of a Florentine noble. For several days she came to Leonardo and sat for her portrait to be painted. However she refused 37 to smile, Leonardo even tried hiring musicians but to no avail. One day just for a fleeting second she gave a faint smile and Leonardo was able to capture it. Her smile encapsulates a tremendous mysteriousness which is both fascinating and intriguing.

WHY IS MONA LISA'S SMILE SO SPECIAL?

• it is wide

• it is symmetric

• it is mysterious

pioneering

means:

• πρωταγωνιστής

• πρωτοπόρος

• μοναχικός

He wrote in left-handed (a)   script.