Renaissance Artists

The artists I researched emphasizes Reanaissance ideals because they had to do with religion. In Bosch's Garden of Earthly Delights, he warned the people of earthly temptations and the damage they can do. In The Last Supper, da Vinci depicted Christ's last supper before his death. While hte two paintings were extremely different in their realism, they were both very detailed paintings, which was also characteristic of art at the time of the Renaissance.

Christopher Columbus: Hero or Villain?

In recent years, there has been speculation as to whether Christopher Columbus is a hero or a villain. Some argue that he is a hero because without him America might have never existed, while others argue that he is a villain because he enslaved natives and claimed to discover the Americas even though he was not the first to do so. In my opinion, Christopher Columbus remains a hero because although he did not really discover America, he was the first to publish his findings and make Europeans more aware of the New World.

When Columbus first came to the Americas, he wrote down what he saw in a journal. When he returned to Europe, his findings were published so that his fellow Europeans could also know about the new world. Although his publications were likely biased, no one in the old world would have known about these things if he had not written about them.