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Leonardo da Vinci has often been described as the archetype of the Renaissance man, his inventions played a major role in the Northern Renaissance and he is widely considered to be one of the greatest painters of all time.
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The Gutenberg Bible was the first major book printed with a movable type printing press, and marked the start of the "Gutenberg Revolution" and the age of the printed book.
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German painter, printmaker, draughtsman and art theorist, generally regarded as the greatest German Renaissance artist. His vast body of work includes altarpieces and religious works, numerous portraits and self-portraits, and copper engravings. His woodcuts, such as the Apocalypse series, retain a more Gothic flavour than the rest of his work. He greatly affected the Renaissance period in the North because of his fabulous creations and portraits that he made on his point of views.
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He is one of the greatest artists of all time, a man whose name has become synonymous with the word "masterpiece": Michelangelo Buonarroti. As an artist he was unmatched, the creator of works of sublime beauty that express the full breadth of the human condition. Was most known for his Marble of David, and painting of the Sistine Chapel.
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Martin Luther was a German priest and professor of theology who initiated the Protestant Reformation. Strongly disputing the claim that freedom from God's punishment of sin could be purchased with money, he confronted indulgence salesman Johann Tetzel with his The Ninety-Five Theses in 1517. His refusal to retract all of his writings at the demand of Pope Leo X in 1520 and the Holy Roman Emperor Charles V at the Diet of Worms in 1521 resulted in his excommunication by the pope and condemnation a
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The Protestant Reformation was a movement which began in the 16th century as a series of attempts to reform the Roman Catholic Church, but ended in division and the establishment of several other Christian churches, most importantly Lutheranism, Reformed churches, and Anabaptists
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Michelangelo was commissioned by Pope Julius II della Rovere in 1508 to repaint the ceiling of the Sistine Chapel frescoed earlier by Piero Matteo d'Amelia with a star-spangled sky. The work was completed between 1508 and 1512. He painted the Last Judgement over the altar, between 1535 and 1541, being commissioned by Pope Paul III Farnese.
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Queen Mary I is known as Bloody Mary for killing 287 Protestants and is responsible for the death of 57,000 people. She executed many people during her reign. The name Catholic Mary Tudor was totally blackened. And till this day she still known as "Bloody Mary" in England.
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Shakespeare was born in Stratford-upon-Avon, on April 23, 1564. Shakespeare married Anne Hathaway on November 28, 1582, Their first daughter, Susanna, was born on May 26, 1583. Later on they had twins: Hamnet and Judith, born February 2, 1585. Hamnet died at the age of 11, on August 11, 1596. He was most famous for his plays and poetry. His most famous plays include Hamlet and Romeo and Juliet
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According to Vasari, Raphael's premature death on Good Friday (April 6, 1520), which was possibly his 37th birthday, was caused by a night of excessive sex with Luti, after which he fell into a fever and, not telling his doctors that this was its cause, was given the wrong cure, which killed him.
