Humanities and Social Sciences / 7–10 History / Year 8 / Historical Knowledge and Understanding / The Western and Islamic world / Renaissance Italy (c.1400 – c.1600) / ACDSEH056
describing the work of Leonardo da Vinci (for example, his artworks 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, Pietà); 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)