Renaissance Key Figures

  • Jan van Eyck
    Sep 24, 1390

    Jan van Eyck

    maaseick
    painter
    Ruler of Holland
    Van Eyck had assembled a workshop and was involved in redecorating the Binnenhof palace
  • Johannes Gutenberg
    Sep 24, 1398

    Johannes Gutenberg

    Germany
    blacksmith, goldsmith, printer, and publisher
    Introduced printing to Europe
    Helped invent the printing press
  • Leonardo da Vinci
    Apr 15, 1452

    Leonardo da Vinci

    Italy
    painter/sculptor
    His painting of the last supper.
    Painting of Mona Lisa.
  • Niccolo Machiavelli
    May 3, 1469

    Niccolo Machiavelli

    Italy
    Politics/writer
    Founder of modern political science
    Wrote the Prince
  • Albrecht Durer
    May 21, 1471

    Albrecht Durer

    Nuremburg
    painter, printmaker, engraver, mathematician, and theorist
    woodcut of knight, death, and the devil
    one of the first european landscape artists
  • Michelangelo Buonarroti
    Mar 6, 1475

    Michelangelo Buonarroti

    Italy
    Sculptor/painter
    Sistine chapel painting
    Sculpture of David
  • Baldassare Castiglione
    Dec 6, 1476

    Baldassare Castiglione

    Italy
    courtier, diplomat, soldier, author
    the book of courtier
    served at the court of the Milanese duke Lodovico Sforza
  • Sir Thomas More
    Feb 7, 1478

    Sir Thomas More

    England
    politics
    elected to represent Great Yarmouth
    elected knight of the shire
  • Raphael
    Mar 28, 1483

    Raphael

    Italy
    Painting/architecture
    Painting of the Vatican
    Many paintings of Jesus and Madonna
  • William Shakespeare
    Apr 23, 1564

    William Shakespeare

    england
    poet/playwrite
    movie romeo and juliet
    movie hamlet