Italy, Rome & Roman Culture Educational Posters & Prints, pg 2/2
notable Italians and places for classrooms and homeschoolers.

Leonardo Da Vinci
b. 4-15-1452; Italy
d. 5-2-1519

Renaissance genius Leonardo Da Vinci profoundly impacted the arts, mathematics and the sciences. He was insatiably curious and inventive, possessing unparalleled intellectual capacity.

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Michelangelo Buonarroti
b. 3-6-1475; Italy
d. 2-18-1564

The brilliant Italian Renaissance artist, known by his first name Michelangelo, was also a skilled architect, poet and engineer. His best known works include the sculptures, “Pietà” and “David,” created before he was 30, and the Sistine Chapel ceiling fresco, which was finished in four years and contained 300 figures.

Galileo Galilei
b. 2-15-1564; Pisa, Italy
d. 1-8-1642; Italy

Galileo Galilei, an Italian Renaissance man, was a mathematician, astronomer, astrologer, philosopher, and physicist whose quantitative experiment based work places him at the beginning of the scientific revolution.

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Benvenuto Cellini
b. 11-3-1500; Florence, Italy
d. 2-13-1571; Italy

Benvenuto Cellini was a goldsmith, painter, sculptor, soldier and musician. He is also remembered for his autobiography, My Life.

Cosimo I de' Medici
b. 6-12-1519; Florence, Italy
d. 4-21-1574; Italy

Cosimo I de' Medici, the Duke of Florence and the first Grand Duke of Tuscany, was a patron of the arts and an “enthusiast of alchemy”.

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Maria Montessori
b. 8-31-1870; Chiaravalle, Italy
d. 5-6-1952; The Netherlands

Maria Montessori, the first woman to earn a medical degree in Italy (1896), is best known today for the method of education she originally developed to teach underpriviliged children in urban slums. Montessori observed that these presumed “feeble-minded” children were inherently gifted with an “absorbent mind” and would flourish in prepared environments with age sensitive activities that involve exploration, manipulations, order, repetition, abstraction, and communication.

She was nominated for the Nobel Peace Prize in 1949, 1950, and 1951.

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Mount Etna, a stratovolcano on the east coast of Sicily, is the largest active volcano in Europe and in almost constant eruption. Etna is a Decade Volcano.

Mount Vesuvius, a stratovolcano east of Naples, Italy, is the only volcano on the European mainland to have erupted within the last hundred years.

In AD 79 Vesuvius erupted, destroying the cities of Pompeii and Herculaneum, including Roman naval officer and writer Pliny the Elder, who was attempting a resuce; today more that 3,000,000 people live near this explosive volcano. Also, Impressionist painter Giuseppe de Nittis painted several views of Vesuvius' eruption of 1872

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The Last Supper, a 15th century mural painting by Leonardo da Vinci in the refractory of Santa Maria delle Grazie, represents the scene from John 13:21 of the last supper when Jesus announces that one of his Twelve Apostles would betray him.

Santa Maria delle Grazie (“Our Lady of Grace”), a church and Dominican convent in Milan, is included in the UNESCO World Heritage sites list. The patron was Duke Ludovico Sforza and his duchess Beatrice d'Este.

Shroud of Turin

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