Renaissance Key Figures .

By spe1121
  • Jan van Eyck
    Sep 21, 1395

    Jan van Eyck

    Maaseik
    Flemish oil painter and portraitist Jan van Eyck .
    Ghent Altarpiece & is The Adoration of the Lamb.
  • Johannes Gutenberg .
    Feb 3, 1398

    Johannes Gutenberg .

    Engraver, Inventor, and Printer .
    Mainz, Electorate of Mainz .
    "zum Gutenberg" .
  • Leonardo da Vinci
    Apr 15, 1452

    Leonardo da Vinci

    Tuscany .
    Architect, sculptor, engineer, painter, scientist, and inventor .
    The Mona Lisa & the Last Supper.
  • Niccolo Machiavelli
    May 3, 1469

    Niccolo Machiavelli

    Florence
    Italian historian, diplomat, philosopher, humanist .
    The Prince & Discourses on Livy .
  • Albrecht Durer
    May 21, 1471

    Albrecht Durer

    Nuremberg .
    Artist , Profession .
    Apocalypse woodcuts , Knight, Death, and the Devil .
  • Michelangelo Buonarroti
    Mar 6, 1475

    Michelangelo Buonarroti

    Florence and Rome.
    Sculptor, painter, architect, poet, and engineer.
    The Pietà and David,
  • Baldassare Castiglione
    Dec 6, 1478

    Baldassare Castiglione

    near Casatico, which is near Mantua .
    Courtier, diplomat, soldier, author .
    "Book of the Courtier."
  • Raphael
    Apr 6, 1483

    Raphael

    Italy .
    The School of Athens in the Vatican Stanza della Segnatura & Mondana .
    Painter & Artist .
  • Thomas More
    Oct 31, 1529

    Thomas More

    English lawyer, social philosopher, author, statesman, and noted Renaissance humanist .
    London .
    Utopia .
  • William Shakespeare .
    Sep 21, 1564

    William Shakespeare .

    Stratford-upon-Avon .
    His most famous plays include a midsummer nights dream, Romeo and Juliet, Hamlet and Macbeth.
    Poet
    Playwright
    Writer
    Actor
    Lyricist
    Author