Ren-ref-sci

  • Period: 1304 to 1374

    Petrarch

    "A Humanist writer who wrote sonnets about a mysterious woman named Laura who was his ideal"
  • 1400

    Humanism

    it was a cultural movement that turned away from the medieval scholasticism view and revived interest in ancient Greek and Roman thought.
  • Period: 1400 to 1468

    Gutenburg

    he was a German printer and was the first person in Europe to print using movable type and the first to use a press
  • Period: 1466 to 1536

    Erasmus

    he was a Dutch humanist and theologian who lead the Renaissance scholar of northern Europe he also Wrote the Praise of Folly
  • Period: 1469 to 1527

    Machiavelli

    "a statesman of Florence who advocated a strong central government" he also wrote the prince
  • Period: 1471 to 1528

    Albrecht Durer

    "a leading German painter and engraver of the Renaissance"
  • Period: 1473 to 1543

    Copernicus

    had a belief that earth rotates daily on an axis and planets revolve in orbits around the sun
  • Period: 1475 to 1564

    Michelangelo

    He was a Florentine sculptor, painter and architect. He sculpted that statue of David
  • Period: 1478 to 1535

    Thomas Moore

    "English statesman who opposed Henry VIII's divorce from Catherine of Aragon and was imprisoned and beheaded; recalled for his concept of Utopia, the ideal state"
  • Period: 1483 to 1520

    Raphael

    An Italian painter whose many paintings exemplify the ideals of the High Renaissance he also Painted the School of Athens
  • 1500

    Perspective

    An artistic technique that creates the appearance of three dimensions on a flat surface.
  • 1543

    heliocentric theory

    having the sun as the center of the universe
  • Period: 1545 to 1563

    council of Trent

    A meeting of Roman Catholic leaders, called by Pope Paul III to rule on doctrines criticized by the Protestant reformers.
  • Period: 1564 to

    William Shakespeare

    He was English poet and dramatist. He is considered to be one of the greatest English writers. He wrote plays like Romeo and Juliet and hamlet.
  • Period: 1564 to

    Galileo

    Italian astronomer and mathematician who first used the telescope to study stars