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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 -
Sep 24, 1398
Johannes Gutenberg
Germany
blacksmith, goldsmith, printer, and publisher
Introduced printing to Europe
Helped invent the printing press -
Apr 15, 1452
Leonardo da Vinci
Italy
painter/sculptor
His painting of the last supper.
Painting of Mona Lisa. -
May 3, 1469
Niccolo Machiavelli
Italy
Politics/writer
Founder of modern political science
Wrote the Prince -
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 -
Mar 6, 1475
Michelangelo Buonarroti
Italy
Sculptor/painter
Sistine chapel painting
Sculpture of David -
Dec 6, 1476
Baldassare Castiglione
Italy
courtier, diplomat, soldier, author
the book of courtier
served at the court of the Milanese duke Lodovico Sforza -
Feb 7, 1478
Sir Thomas More
England
politics
elected to represent Great Yarmouth
elected knight of the shire -
Mar 28, 1483
Raphael
Italy
Painting/architecture
Painting of the Vatican
Many paintings of Jesus and Madonna -
Apr 23, 1564
William Shakespeare
england
poet/playwrite
movie romeo and juliet
movie hamlet
