Tansy's Renaissance Timeline

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  • Period: 476 to

    Dark Ages

    In 476 A.D. the great city of Rome was captured by tribes from germany, which set off what is sometimes called the Dark Ages.
  • Period: Jan 1, 1350 to

    Renaissance

    The Renaissance was a movement of cultural rebirth in Italy. It tried to recapture some of the ancient greatness of ancient Greece and Rome.
  • Jan 1, 1425

    Masaccio

    Masaccio
    Masaccio developed the use of perspective in art. It was a technique that gave objects the appearance of distance. He used this technique in "The Healing of the Cripple and the Resurrection of Tabitha" in a chapel in Florence.
  • Jan 1, 1440

    Donatello's "David"

    Donatello's "David"
    Donatello wanted to show the strength and grace of the human form. He was the first European sculptor to make a free standing large human figure in the nude.
  • Jan 1, 1445

    Gutenberg's Printing Press

    Gutenberg's Printing Press
    Because Gutenberg's press could produce books quickly and with relatively little effort, bookmaking became much less expensive, allowing more people to buy reading material.
  • Jan 1, 1504

    Raphael

    Raphael
    Raphael was a painter in the High Renaissance. He made new techniques in the art as shown in the round tempietto at S. Pietro in Montorio in Rome.
  • Jan 1, 1508

    Michelangelo

    Michelangelo
    Michelangelo was a sculpture and painter. He sculpted "David", a very famous sculture. Michelangelo worked on his most famous project, the ceiling of the Sistine Chapel in the Vatican.
  • Jan 1, 1510

    Copericus

    Copericus
    A Polish Astronomer that theorized that Earth revolves around the Sun.
  • Jan 1, 1510

    Leonardo Da Vinci

    Leonardo Da Vinci
    Leonardo Da Vinci was a very famous artist. He created the Mona Lisa.
  • Jan 1, 1550

    The Study of Anatomy

    The Study of Anatomy
    During Medieval times, cutting open dead human bodies was not accpeted. Doctor, Andreas Vesalius bodly struck out against old Medieval attitudes. He collected corpses and observed the inside of bodies, the anatomy.
  • Jan 1, 1581

    Galileo's Pendulum

    Galileo's Pendulum
    Galileo discovered that each swing took the exact same time. An even amount of time. This was used in clocks later on.

  • Galileo's Telescope

    Galileo's Telescope
    Galileo heard about an instrument that made distant objects appear closer. He then made a more powerful one and used it to look at astronomy.