Renaissance+and+Reformation+Painting

The Last Supper


The Last Supper was one of the great artist of the Ressaince. He did many great art works. The Last Supper shows Jesus with his twelve apostles before he was hanged. Sadly over the years, the printing has faded away.

**Grorgio Vasari**
Grorgio Vasari was a Renaissance writer who wrote many of books. He wrote about the culture of rebirth. His one The Lives of the Most Excellent Architects, Painters, and Sculptors told about how the great art of the World fall during the middle ages.

**Spanish Armada**
In the late 1500s, the Spanish started to hate Queen Elizabeth I, she want a compromise between the Catholic and protestant. Spain king was Philip II. The Spanish army was fighting a protestant army in France. Then Elizabeth sent an army to help the protestant. Philip was mad, he formed a armada with thousands of soldiers. His plan was to crush the protestant in France and then the army to meet up with the armada in Flounder and then cross the channel and invade England. In 1588, the Armada left Spain. Elizabeth rounded up every ship. She put Charles Howard in charge of the Ships. Howard knew nothing about sailing, he tried everything to get out of it but the queen wanted to hear it. In second in command was Francis Drake, who was somewhat a pirate. The one day, the people of England could see the Spanish armada, but the English Navy, could do nothing but the wind kept them in the harbor. The Spanish armada could have defeated the navy now, but the Spanish commander want said they the direction was to first meet up with the army at Flounder. The Spanish armada kept going without doing any damage to the English navy. The the wind changed and the English navy could get out of the harbor and chase the Spanish armada. The English ships were faster and quickly caught up with the Spanish armada. The English Navy split in two for the first battle with the armada. The kept there distance because the Spanish like to get close and jump across and fight it out hand to hand. Over the course of the day, the English ships kept there distance and fired shots after shots. But the English navy did little damage that day, also only a few shoots it their target. Only one spanish ship was damage and it wasn't because of the English, it was because it crash into another Spanish ship. Then final battle, happen when the English Navy again split into three groups. The different with this battle the got close to the Spanish ship and did damage. The Spanish ship couldn't fire because, most of them were soldier and they weren't trained to fire cannons off of ships. After they battle, they try to turn back sail back but the English navy block the path. The Spanish had to sail around Scottland, around Ireland, but on the way, they hit bad weather and many ships were damage, only a few ships made it back to Spain. The Spanish armada, was consider a religious war, because the Spanish king was catholic and he wanted to kill the Queen of Enland because she want peace between Catholic and protestant.