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Renaissance key figures

  • Jan van Eyck
    Jul 9, 1441

    Jan van Eyck

    Jan van Eyck is the most famous member of a family of painters traditionally believed to have originated from the town of Maaseik, in the diocese of Liège.
  • Leonardo da Vinci
    Apr 15, 1452

    Leonardo da Vinci

    Leonardo da Vinci, a noted Italian painter, sculptor, architect, engineer, and scientist.
  • Johannes Gutenberg
    Feb 3, 1468

    Johannes Gutenberg

    In 1439, he became the global inventor of the mechanical printing press. He also produced the Gutenberg Bible. country Mainz, Germany.
  • NIccolo Machiavelli
    May 3, 1469

    NIccolo Machiavelli

    were that he created one of the worlds famous books called, "The Prince".
  • Michelangelo Buonarroti
    Mar 6, 1475

    Michelangelo Buonarroti

    were in sculpture and painting, works, the relief sculpture Battle of Centaurs (Casa Buonarroti, Florence). country Renaissance Italy.
  • Sir Thomas More
    Feb 7, 1478

    Sir Thomas More

    Sir Thomas More was a lawyer, statesman, social humanist, and noted author. He coined the word "utopia" in his work by the same name. He was beheaded for his opposition to the separation of the king of England from the Catholic Church and eventually sainted within the Catholic religion.
  • Raphael
    Mar 28, 1483

    Raphael

    greatest achievements are the frescoes in the pope's appartments, painted in 1510 - 1511. Designed to showed the Catholic church
  • Albrecht Durer
    Apr 6, 1528

    Albrecht Durer

    For his paintings and traveling to Italy. One of the most significant achievements of Albrecht Durer was to?
  • Baldassare Castiglione
    Dec 6, 1529

    Baldassare Castiglione

    The Book of the Courtier, presented as a dialogue among members of the court at Urbino, combines Medieval and Classical ideals, and says a courtier must be both a soldier and a scholar.
  • William Shakespeare
    Apr 26, 1564

    William Shakespeare

    Shakespeare has an endless list of wonderful achievements. If I were to walk the streets, anywhere, asking people if they have heard of Shakespeare, I would not get many answers saying “no”.