Exam practice

Does Leonardo deserve the title "Genius"?
Leonardo defiantly deserves the title Genius after all his paintings, intentions, and breakthroughs.

“He made designs of flour-mills, fullingmills, and engines, which might be driven by the force of water; and since he wished that his profession should be painting, he studied much in drawing after nature, and sometimes in making models of figures in clay, over which he would lay soft pieces of cloth dipped in clay, and then set himself patiently to draw them on a certain kind of very fine Rheims cloth, or prepared linen”

“Marvellous and divine, indeed, was Lionardo the son of Ser Piero da Vinci. In erudition and letters he would have distinguished himself, if he had not been variable and unstable. For he set himself to learn many things, and when he had begun them gave them up. In arithmetic, during the few months that he applied himself to it, he made such progress that he often perplexed his master by the doubts and difficulties that he propounded.”

“In the Renaissance, however, human beings became the central focus of artistic expression. This development was the result of the humanist movement, a revival of the culture of ancient Greece and Rome (called the classical period) initiated by scholars in Florence, Italy, in the mid-1300s.”

Sources:
FORDHAM.EDU. Web. 04 June 2010. http://www.fordham.edu/halsall/basis/vasari/vasari14.htm.
"Leonardo Da Vinci: Renaissance and Reformation Primary Sources." ENotes - Literature Study Guides, Lesson Plans, and More. Web. 04 June 2010. http://www.enotes.com/renaissance-
reformation-primary-sources/leonardo-da-vinci.
"Medieval Sourcebook: Giorgio Vasari: Life of Leonardo Da Vinci 1550." FORDHAM.EDU. Web.
04 June 2010. http://www.fordham.edu/halsall/source/vasari1.html.

2.Summarize how Elizabeth rises to the throne

Elizabeth rose to the throne through patience and cunning and brought a new age of hope to England.

“In a matter most unpleasing, most pleasing to me is the apparent Good will of you and my People, as proceeding from a very good mind towards me and the Commonwealth. Concerning Marriage, which ye so earnestly move me to, I have been long since perswaded, that I was sent into this world by God to think and doe those things chiefly which may tend to his Glory.”

“You have in various ways and manners attempted to take my life and to bring my kingdom to destruction by bloodshed. I have never proceeded so harshly against you, but have, on the contrary, protected and maintained you like myself.”

“seeing so great wickedness and griefs in the world in which we live but as wayfaring pilgrims, we must suppose that God would never have made us but for a better place and of more comfort than we find here. I know no creature that breatheth whose life standeth hourly in more peril for it than mine own; who entered not into my state without sight of manifold dangers of life and crown, as one that had the mightiest and the greatest to wrestle with”

Sources:
"Elizabeth I: Poetry." EnglishHistory.net. Web. 04 June 2010. http://englishhistory.net/tudor/eliz1-writings.html.
"Modern History Sourcebook: Queen Elizabeth I of England: Selected Writing AndSpeeches." FORDHAM.EDU. Web. 04 June 2010. http://www.fordham.edu/halsall/mod/elizabeth1.html.
"Primary Sources: The Execution of Mary, Queen of Scots, 1587." EnglishHistory.net. Web. 04 June 2010. http://englishhistory.net/tudor/scot-letters.html.