Amanda Miller's Renaissance Timeline

By Amanda Miller

  • The Black Plague

    This disease spread through Northern Europe killing thousands of people.

  • Merchants Get Rich

    After the Black Plague wealth for the survivors of this disease greatly increased. Merchants's investment money doubled resulting a celebration of life.

  • Humanism

    After the Black Plague many people felt grateful to be alive and so they began creating art. Merchants and patrons supported and purchased from artists and so the amount of artwork increased. This was the birth of the Renaissance.

  • Artists begin using new techniques

    After more artwork occurs during the Renaissance artists become more competitive and are forced to come up with new and better ideas to improve artwork. Some of these ideas were realism, perspective, and using a vanishing point.

  • Leonardo da Vinci creates Mona Lisa

    Leonardo da Vinci created many pieces of artwork during the Renaissance. Two of his most famous were the Mona Lisa and the Last Supper.

  • Raphael creates the School of Athens

    Raphael imagined an image of all the greatest minds of the Renaissance coming together in one place. This was the idea behind his painting "The School of Athens".

  • Michelangelo creates Sistine Chapel

    Michelangelo spent nearly two years of his life creating a religious masterpiece on the walls and ceiling of the Sistine Chapel. Many bible stories and biblical ideas are portrayed in his painting.

  • The Chinese invent the printing press with movable type.

    While the Chinese printing press was not the most popular invention in China this creation became very important to the people in Northern Europe.

  • Shakespeare writes many famous plays

    Shakespeare was known for his fantastic literature and thought-provoking plays. Many of the words he invented and plays he wrote are still used and looked upon today.

  • Johann Gutenburg begins printing Bible's

    After discovering the Chinese printing press, Johann Gutenburg begins using this invention to print large numbers of Bibles. As more books were made people began wanting to read them which greatly increased literacy throughout Europe.