Renaissance Key Figures

  • Period: Jan 1, 1395 to Jan 1, 1564

    Renaissance Key Figures

  • Jan van Eyck
    Sep 24, 1395

    Jan van Eyck

    Maesheyck, diocese of Liège
    Flemish painter active in Bruges
    Painted the Ghent Altarpiece and Madonna of Chancellor Rolin,
  • Johannes Gutenberg
    Sep 24, 1398

    Johannes Gutenberg

    Mainz, Electorate of Mainz
    German blacksmith, goldsmith, printer, and publisher
    introduced printing to Europe, and His invention of mechanical movable type printing started the Printing Revolution
  • Leonardo da Vinci
    Apr 15, 1452

    Leonardo da Vinci

    Italy
    Painter, writer, inventor, architect, engineer, mathematician, musician, and a philosospher.
    Painted the Mona Lisa and The Last Supper
  • Niccolo Machiavelli
    May 3, 1469

    Niccolo Machiavelli

    Florence
    Italian historian, diplomat, philosopher, humanist and writer
    He wrote The Prince and Discourses on Livy
  • Albrecht Durer
    May 21, 1471

    Albrecht Durer

    Nuremberg, Holy Roman Empire
    German painter, printmaker, engraver, mathematician, and theorist.
    His well-known works include the Knight, Death, and the Devil
  • Michelangelo Buonarroti
    Mar 6, 1475

    Michelangelo Buonarroti

    Arezzo, Tuscany
    sculptor, painter, architect, poet, and enigneer
    Painted the Sistine Chapel in Rome and sculpted Pieta ,mary the mother of Jesus
  • Baldassare Castiglione
    Dec 6, 1476

    Baldassare Castiglione

    Casatico, near Mantua
    italian courtier, diplomat, soldier and a renaissance author.
    Wrote "The Courtier" and "Amorose canzoni"
  • Sir Thomas More
    Feb 7, 1478

    Sir Thomas More

    London
    English lawyer, social philosopher, author, statesman, and Renaissance humanist.
    His novel "Utopia" and he was elected to Parliament to represent Great Yarmouth
  • Raphael
    Mar 28, 1483

    Raphael

    Urbino, Marche
    painter and architect
    Painted "The school of Athens" and "The Madonna of the Meadow"
  • William Shakespeare
    Apr 26, 1564

    William Shakespeare

    Stratford-upon-Avon, Warwickshire, England
    English poet and playwright
    Wrote "Hamlet" and "King Lear"