Meghan's Renaissance Timeline

By owenmac1
  • Mar 10, 1100

    The High Middle Ages

    The High Middle Ages
    The High Middle Ages was the time when most of Europe's finest cathedrals and castles were built.
  • Period: Jan 1, 1300 to

    Renaissance

    Renaissance means rebirth. It was a cultural movment in Florence Italy. The Renaissance tried to capture some of the greatness of anciant Greece and Rome.
  • Mar 10, 1401

    Masaccio

    Masaccio
    Masaccio was born
  • Mar 10, 1411

    Donatello

    Donatello
    At the age of 17 Donatello was working as an aprentist. He left Florence and went to rome to study its anciant ruins. He then returned to Florence to continue sculpting.
  • Mar 10, 1415

    Perspective

    Perspective
    Masaccio carried the revolution further by using a little something called persepctive which is a technique that gave objects the appearance of distance
  • Period: Mar 10, 1420 to Mar 10, 1436

    The Cathedral of Florence

    An architect named Brunelleschi proposed the idea of putting a round top on the famous Cathedral of Florence. When the masterpiece was complete the cross on the top was 370 feet above street leave...twice as high as the famous dome of Constantinople's Hagia Sophia.
  • Mar 10, 1425

    Masaccio'a painting

    Masaccio'a painting
    Masaccio used the technique in 1425 to decorate a chapel in Florence. The piece was called, "The Healing of the Cripple and the Resurrection of Tabitha"
  • Mar 9, 1430

    Five Areas affected by the Renaissance

    Five Areas affected by the Renaissance
    1. Art was a huge part of the Renaissance. Some of the most famous artist painted their most famous paintings during the Renaissance
    2. Books
    3. Voyages of exploration
    4. Science and the solar system
    5. Religion-Protestane
  • Mar 10, 1452

    Leonardo da Vinci

    Leonardo da Vinci
    Leonardo da Vinci was born on April 15 1452. He was a painter, sculptor and architect.
  • Mar 10, 1475

    Michelangelo

    Michelangelo
    Michelangelo was born on March 6th in 1475. He was a painter,sculptor, architect, poet and engineer.
  • Mar 10, 1490

    The Last Supper

    The Last Supper
    The Last Supper was one of Leonardo's most famous paintings. it was painted in Milan In the 1490's.
  • Mar 10, 1492

    The death of the Magnificent

    The death of the Magnificent
    Lorenzo the Magnificent dies
  • Mar 10, 1497

    Pieta

    Pieta
    In 1497 the "Pieta" was sculpted by Michelangelo.
  • Mar 10, 1500

    Mona Lisa

    Mona Lisa
  • Mar 10, 1504

    David

    David
    In 1504 The David was sculpted. It is one of the most know scultpors in the whole world. It was one of the first free standing scultors ever made.
  • Mar 10, 1505

    Sistine Chapel

    Sistine Chapel
    In 1505 Michelangelo painted the Sistine Chapel. The masterpiece took 4 years!!!!!!!!!!!
  • Mar 10, 1513

    The Prince

    The Prince
    Machiavelli Writes a book of advice for rulers called "The Prince"
  • Mar 9, 1524

    Andraes Vesalius

    Andraes Vesalius
    Andraes Vesalius was a Belgian doctor . He was considered "the father of anatomy." Vesalius collected corpses for graveyards and used knives to perform disections.
  • Mar 10, 1543

    Copernicus

    Copernicus
    Copernicus's book, "On the Heavenly Bodies' as printed in the springtime.
  • Period: Mar 10, 1550 to

    The Scientific Revolution

    1. Robert Hooke used the microscope to discover plant cells.
    2. Gabriel Fahrengeit invented the merxury thermometer. 3.William Harvey developed the theory of how blood circulates. These are just some of the scientific discoveries during the scientific revolution
  • Mar 10, 1564

    Galileo Galilei

    Galileo Galilei
    Galileo Galilei was born

  • The Telescope

    The Telescope
    A dutch inventor had built the first telescope.

  • The Roman Empire

    The Roman Empire
    By 100A.D the Roman Empire had explanded into Europe, as far north as Scottland, Asia and Africa.