Renaissance Key Figures

By tykima
  • Period: Sep 24, 1200 to

    Renaissance Key Figures:

  • Jan van Eyck
    Jul 9, 1441

    Jan van Eyck

    Country : Holy Roman Empire
    Painter
    One of the earliest Flemish oil painters, artist and portraitist Jan van Eyck, painted the "Adoration of the Lamb," the altarpiece for the Church of St. Bavon.
  • Leonardo da Vinci
    Apr 15, 1452

    Leonardo da Vinci

    Country : Italy
    Painter
    The Mona Lisa , The Last Supper
  • Johannes Gutenberg
    Feb 3, 1468

    Johannes Gutenberg

    Country : Germany
    Inventor
    method of printing from movable type. He printed the first book via movable type, the “Forty-Two-Line” Bible
  • Niccolo Machiavelli
    May 3, 1469

    Niccolo Machiavelli

    Country : Italy
    Diplomat, Writer
    The Prince, a handbook for unscrupulous politicians that inspired the term "machiavellian
  • Albrecht Durer
    May 21, 1471

    Albrecht Durer

    Country : Germany
    Painter
    regarded as the greatest German Renaissance artist. His work includes altarpieces, portraits and self-portraits, engravings, and woodcuts
  • Michelangelo Buonarroti
    Mar 6, 1475

    Michelangelo Buonarroti

    Country : Italy
    Painter , sculptor , architect , and poet
    sculpture David and the Biblical mural covering the ceiling of the Sistine Chapel
  • Sir Thomas More
    Feb 7, 1478

    Sir Thomas More

    country : England
    Lawyer, Political Leader, Saint, Journalist
    He is noted for coining the word "Utopia," ,
  • Baldassare Castiglione
    Dec 6, 1478

    Baldassare Castiglione

    country : Italy
    courtier, diplomat, soldier and a prominent Renaissance author.
    cortegiano (The Courtier)
  • Raphael
    Mar 28, 1483

    Raphael

    Country : Italy
    Architect, and Painter
    Madonnas and his large figure compositions in the Vatican in Rome.
  • William Shakespeare
    Apr 23, 1564

    William Shakespeare

    Country : England
    Playwright, Poet
    English poet, dramatist, and actor, often called the English national poet, is widely considered the greatest dramatist of all time.