Renaissance Key Figures:

By KaylaPaige
  • Period: Sep 24, 1200 to

    Renaissance Key Figures:

  • Sep 24, 1395

    Jan van Eyck

    Jan van Eyck
    Europe.
    Flemish painter active in Bruges .
    his designs and methods were heavily copied and reproduced
    He served as both court artist and diplomat and became a senior member of the Tournai painters' guild.
  • Apr 14, 1452

    Leonardo da Vinci

    Leonardo da Vinci
    Vinci Italy.
    Artist/painter.
    Painted Mona Lisa
  • Feb 3, 1468

    Johannes Gutenberg

    Johannes Gutenberg
    Germany.
    blacksmith, goldsmith, printer, and publisher
    in 1450 Johannes made his first printing press.
    His invention of mechanical movable type printing started the Printing Revolution and is widely regarded as the most important event of the modern period
  • May 3, 1469

    Niccolo Machiavelli

    Niccolo Machiavelli
    died : June 21, 1527
    Florence, Italy.
    Italian diplomat, writer and political philosopher
    missions to Louis XII of France and to the Holy Roman Emperor Maximillian I
  • May 21, 1471

    Albrecht Durer

    Albrecht Durer
    Germany.
    painter, printmaker, engraver, mathematician.
    His prints established his reputation across Europe.
    Made saints jerome study.
  • Sep 24, 1475

    Michelangelo Buonarroti

    Michelangelo Buonarroti
    1475-1504
    Artist.
    a man whose name has become synonymous with the word "masterpiece"
    Italy.
  • Feb 27, 1478

    Sir Thomas More

    Sir Thomas More
    London.
    Renaissance English writer and Catholic marty.
    portraits, essays and articles, and various study resources.
  • Dec 6, 1478

    Baldassare Castiglione

    Baldassare Castiglione
    Italy.
    courtier, diplomat, soldier and a prominent Renaissance author.
    Castiglione wrote (and acted in) a pastoral play, his eclogue Tirsi
    he wrote a book called The Book Of The Courtier
  • Apr 6, 1483

    Raphael

    Raphael
    Italy.
    Italian painter and architect of the High Renaissance.
    Together with Michelangelo and Leonardo da Vinci, he forms the traditional trinity of great masters of that period
    Died at the age of 37.
  • Apr 3, 1564

    William Shakespeare

    William Shakespeare
    Died on his birthday in 1616.
    England.
    between approximately 1590 and 1613, he is attributed with writing 38 plays
    He is the most widely read of all Authors and the popularity of the Life and Works of Shakespeare,