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The Key Figures during the Renaissance

  • Jan van Eyck
    Sep 24, 1395

    Jan van Eyck

    Belguim
    Painter
    Invented oil painting
    His works are considered the Early Netherlandish paintings
  • Johannes Gutenburg
    Sep 24, 1398

    Johannes Gutenburg

    German
    Blacksmith, goldsmith, printer, and publisher
    Invented his own printing press, movable type printing
    Provided material for the modern knowledge-based economy
  • Leonardo da Vinci
    Apr 15, 1452

    Leonardo da Vinci

    Italy
    His intrests were being a painter, scupltor, architect, musician, scientists, mathetician, engineer, inventor; etc.
    The painting of Mona Lisa
    The paintng of the Last Supper
  • Niccolo Machiavelli
    May 3, 1469

    Niccolo Machiavelli

    Italy
    Historian, diplomat, philospher, humanist, and writer
    Founder of modern political science
    Wrote the masterpiece, The Prince
  • Albrecht Durer
    May 21, 1471

    Albrecht Durer

    German
    Painter, printmaker, engraver, mathematician, and theorists
    Known as the greatest artist of the Northern Renaissance
    One of the first European landscape artist
  • Michelangelo Buonarroti
    Mar 6, 1475

    Michelangelo Buonarroti

    Italy
    Painter, sculptor, poet, architect, and engineer
    Sistine Chapel ceiling
    The David
  • Sir Thomas More
    Feb 7, 1478

    Sir Thomas More

    England
    Lawyer, social philospher, author, statesman, and humanist
    Chancellor of the Duchy of Lancaster
    Speaker of the House of Commons
  • Baldassare Castiglione
    Dec 6, 1478

    Baldassare Castiglione

    Italy
    Courtier, diplomat, soldier, and author
    The Book of the Courtier
    The Bishop of Avila
  • Raphael
    Apr 6, 1520

    Raphael

    Italy
    Painter and architect
    The School of Athens
    The paintings of Madonna
  • William Shakespeare
    Apr 23, 1564

    William Shakespeare

    England
    Poet and playwriter and writer of many books
    Wrote the Hamlet
    Romeo and Juliet
    Died on the same day as his birthday