Elaborations

• describing the work of Leonardo Da Vinci for example his artworks (the Mona Lisa and The Last Supper) and inventions (a rudimentary helicopter and solar power); the work of Michelangelo (for example the Sistine Chapel paintings, David, Pieta); the thinking of Copernicus (for example astronomy – seeing the sun as the centre of the universe); and the invention of the printing press
• investigating learning in the Renaissance period (for example humanism, astrology, alchemy, the influence of ancient Greece and Rome)