The Intelectual and Artistic Renaissance

By NumberOneXD
  • 1300

    Beginning of The Renaissance

    In Florence, Italy, a new era in Europe started
  • 1308

    Dante Creates the “Divine Comedy”

    Dante Alighieri was a philosopher and poet, best known for the “Divine Comedy”
    The Divine Comedy is about the trip after dying, it has three parts, Hell (Inferno), Heaven (Paradiso), and Purgatory (Purgatorio).
  • 1418

    Filipo Brunelleschi designs the church of San Lorenzo

    Filipo was an architect, sculptor and goldsmith.
    In this church a lot of Medici people are buried.
  • 1503

    “The Mona Lisa” of Leonardo Da Vinci

    Leonardo Da Vinci was a lot of things at the same time, but he was mostly recognized as an engineer and artist.
    The Mona Lisa was also recognized as La Gioconda, because she was the wife of Francesco del Giocondo, painting with oil on a poplar wood.
  • 1508

    “Sistine Chapel” by Michelangelo

    Michelangelo was the one that painted the church of the Vatican City.
    It contains the Creation of Adan.
  • 1510

    Raphael’s “School of Athens”

    The painting symbolize the marriage of art, philosophy, and science that was a hallmark of the Italian Renaissance.
    Raphael was an architect and an artist.
  • 1513

    Machiavelli writes “The Prince”

    Machiavelli was a political philosopher and statesman, secretary of the Florentine Republic.
    The Prince was a political treatise, it was wrote in Italian, and the title in Latin was De Principatibus.
  • Oct 31, 1517

    Martin Luther’s “Theses”

    Martin Luther was a German theologian and religious reformer who was the catalyst of the 16th- century Protestant Reformation.
    The theses was posted on the door of the Castle Church, this because it was an attempt to stop the Roman Catholic Church from selling indulgences or “get out of hell free” cards, because he thought the Church didn’t have the power to do that and for money.
  • 1543

    Copernicus writes “Commentariolus”

    In this book, Copernicus talks about a new model, the heliocentric one, talks about That the Sun is in the middle of the universe.
    Copernicus, he was an astronomer that discover the heliocentric model.

  • Book One of November Organum Scientiarum of Francis Bacon

    It was a book about science, and how science would help control nature.
    Francis Bacon was an English philosopher and statesman.