Renaissance Key Figures

  • Jan Van Eyck
    Jul 9, 1395

    Jan Van Eyck

    Country: Maaseik
    Area of Interest: Painter
    Achievement: Invented oil painting
    Achievement: retable for the St Bavo's Cathedral in Ghent
  • Leonardo da Vinci
    Apr 15, 1452

    Leonardo da Vinci

    Country - Anchiano
    Area(s) of interest - painter, sculptor, architect, musician, scientist, mathematician, engineer, inventor, ETC....
    He painted two of the most famous paintings - Mona Lisa and The Last Supper
    He invented the the helicopter and an airplane
  • Johannes Gutenberg
    Feb 3, 1468

    Johannes Gutenberg

    Area of Interest: blacksmith, goldsmith, printer, and publisher
    Country: Mainz
    Achievement: inventor of the art of printing with movable types
    Achievement: Gutenberg Bible
  • Niccolo Machiavelli
    May 3, 1469

    Niccolo Machiavelli

    Area of Interest: diplomat, philosopher, humanist, etc ...
    Country: Italy
    Achievement/fact: created one of the worlds famous books called, "The Prince"
    Achievement/fact: Wrote The Mandrake
  • Albrecht Durer
    May 21, 1471

    Albrecht Durer

    Country: Nuremberg
    Area of Interest: painter, printmaker, engraver, mathematician, and theorist
    Achievement: opened his own workshop in 1494
    Achievement: Painted The Four Witches
  • Michelangelo Buonarroti
    Mar 6, 1475

    Michelangelo Buonarroti

    Country - Caprese Michelangelo
    Area of Interest- sculptor, painter, architect, poet, and engineer
    Achievements- masterpiece on the ceiling of the Sistine Chapel
    He painted The Last Judgement
  • Sir Thomas More
    Feb 7, 1478

    Sir Thomas More

    Area of Interest: lawyer, social philosopher, author, statesman, and noted Renaissance humanist
    Country: London
    Achievement one:coined the word "utopia" in his work by the same name
    Achievement two: Catholic saint
  • Baldassare Castiglione
    Dec 6, 1478

    Baldassare Castiglione

    Area of Interest: diplomat, soldier, Renaissance author, etc...
    Country: Mantua
    Achievement: Wrote The Courtier
    Achievement: Castiglione wrote (and acted in) a pastoral play, his eclogue Tirsi
  • Raphael
    Apr 6, 1483

    Raphael

    Area of interest - painter and architect
    Country- Urbino, Italy
    One achievement/fact - best known for his Madonnas
    Two achievement/fact - Painting of Sistene Madonna
  • William Shakespeare
    Apr 23, 1564

    William Shakespeare

    Area of Interest: poet and playwright
    Country: Stratford-upon-Avon
    Achievement one: he wrote 38 plays
    Achievement two: Wrote Romeo and Juliet