Hi 8th Graders:
Here are some links you can use to do your Renaissance Men/Women assignment!
What is a Renaissance Man/Woman?
http://brainz.org/what-renaissance-man/ Short, sweet, and to the point
http://www.wisegeek.com/what-is-a-renaissance-man.htm Ignore the ads and read the content, it's a good answer.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Polymath Yes, there is a technical term for a Renaissance Man, it's Polymath!
http://artofmanliness.com/2008/05/27/how-to-be-a-renaissance-man/ This article tells you how to be a Renaissance Man, but in doing so also defines what a Renaissance Man is (a person who does all the things they suggest...)
http://alexpetrov.com/memes/hum/renaissance-man.html Excellent excerpt from Charles Van Doren's book A History of Knowledge: Past, Present, and Future. Although his main thesis is that Renaissance Men didn't really exist, he actually proves they did.
Actual Renaissance Men and Women:
Leonardo da Vinci
Lorenzo de Medici
Leon Battista Alberti (be sure you click on the biography link at the bottom for more information)
Isabella d'Este (a Renaissance WOMAN!)
Sofonisba Anguissola (Another woman...this also includes a link to Isabella d'Este)
There are other men and women you can research as well (please make sure they were living between 1300-1600, the dates of the Renaissance)
For ideas on Modern-Day people to model your own Renaissance Person on:
http://www.askmen.com/top_10/celebrity/top-10-modern-renaissance-men.html Gives a list and short informational blurb about 10 Celebrities
http://answers.yahoo.com/question/index?qid=20080206214117AA3VRzA An Answers.com site that gives you other people's answers (haha) about who are Modern-Day Renaissance Men
http://www.martinfrost.ws/htmlfiles/Polymath.html Includes a good, bullet-pointed list of what a Renaissance Man should be...
Have fun!
KF
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