Renaissance key figures

By aharding
  • Johannes Gutenberg
    Sep 24, 1398

    Johannes Gutenberg

    Germany
    blacksmith, goldsmith, printer, and publisher who introduced printing to Europe.
    Created the printing press, mad ethe use of oil based ink
  • Leonardo da Vinci
    Apr 15, 1452

    Leonardo da Vinci

    Italy
    painter, architect, inventor, and student of all things scientific.
    Painted Mona Lisa and The Last Supper
  • Niccolo Machiavelli
    May 3, 1469

    Niccolo Machiavelli

    Italy
    politics and patriotism
    author of The Prince, author of many "Discourses" on political life in the Roman Republic
  • Albrecht Durer
    May 21, 1471

    Albrecht Durer

    Germany
    painter, printmaker, engraver, mathematician, and theorist from Nuremberg
    engraved into wood knight death and the devil, made saint jerome study
  • Michelangelo Buonarroti
    Mar 6, 1475

    Michelangelo Buonarroti

    Italy
    sculptor, painter, architect, poet, and engineer
    The Last Judgment on the altar wall of the Sistine Chapel in Rome. The Statue of David.
  • Sir Thomas More
    Feb 7, 1478

    Sir Thomas More

    England
    lawyer, social philosopher, author, statesman, and noted Renaissance humanist
    he wrote 'The History of Richard III' also utopia
  • Baldassare Castiglione
    Dec 6, 1478

    Baldassare Castiglione

    Italy
    courtier, diplomat, soldier and a prominent Renaissance author
    wrote a book called courtrtiern and wrote the de oficiif
  • William Shakespeare
    Apr 23, 1564

    William Shakespeare

    England
    English poet and playwright, widely regarded as the greatest writer
    Wrote Romeo and Juliet, also Hamlet.
  • Raphael

    Raphael

    Italy
    Italian painter and architec
    painted The Death of Socrates , modern scientific spirit in his work An Experiment with an Air Pump