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It was the most devastating bubonic plague pandemic in human history, affecting Eurasia and North Africa in the 14th century, and reaching a peak between 1347 and 1353. It wiped out a third of the population of Europe and was repeated in successive waves until 1490. -
He was one of the most important architects of the Renaissance, inventor of linear perspective with a single vanishing point and author of the famous dome of Santa María del Fiore in Florence.
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It marked a turning point in the Hundred Years' War between France and England. The siege took place at the height of English power during the latter stages of the war, but was repulsed by French forces inspired by the arrival of Joan of Arc.
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He was an Italian explorer from Genoa. His four Renaissance voyages across the Atlantic changed the course of world history. Funded by Spanish royalty, he sailed west with wooden ships in search of a route to China and instead found the “New World.”
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With the invention of the printing press with movable metal type in the 1450s, this German blacksmith and publisher made texts more accessible in Europe.
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The birth of Venus is part of the sensitivity of the Renaissance, a time in which the representation of the myths of Classical Antiquity was renewed, in which the Renaissance found hidden truths about human nature.It is a painting made by the Renaissance painter Sandro Botticelli -
The School of Athens exemplifies Renaissance trends and innovations, such as the realistic depiction of human figures, as well as the use of foreshortening and linear perspective, artistic techniques that create the illusion of depth on a two-dimensional surface. -
The coronation of Elizabeth I as Queen of the Kingdom of England took place at Westminster Abbey, London, on 15 January 1559. Elizabeth Tudor ascended the throne at the age of 25 following the death of her half-sister, Queen Mary.