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Period: Jan 1, 1350 to
Renaissance
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Mar 11, 1411
Donatello
Donato di Niccolò di Betto Bardi, also known as Donatello, was an early Renaissance Italian artist and sculptor from Florence.In 1411–1413, Donatello worked on a statue of St. Mark for the church of Orsanmichele. -
Jan 1, 1467
Sandro Botticelli
Sandro Botticelli, a Florentine painter, born at Florence in 1444 in a house in the Via Nueva, Borg' Ognissanti.Having shown an irrepressible bent towards painting, he was apprenticed in 1458-59 to Fra Filippo Lippi, in whose workshop he remained as an assistant apparently until 1467, when the master went to carry out a commission for the decoration with frescoes of the cathedral church of Spoleto. -
Period: Jan 1, 1490 to Jan 1, 1527
High Renaissance Era
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Jan 1, 1492
Lorenzo de Medici
Lorenzo de Medici - arguably the greatest of the Medici - died in 1492. -
Jan 1, 1498
Michaelangelo di Lodovico Buonarroti Simoni
Michaelangelo di Lodovico Buonarroti Simoni was born in Caprese. He was an Italian sculptor, painter, architect and poet. He was one of the founders of the High Renaissance and, in his later years, one of the principal exponents of Mannerism.Two of his best-known works, the Pietà and David, were sculpted before he turned thirty. He also did the ceiling at the Sistine Chapel. -
Jan 1, 1501
Michaelangelo
The David. -
Jan 1, 1503
Raphael Sanzio or Raffaello Sanzio
Raphael was born in Urbino.Raphael Sanzio or Raffaello was an Italian master painter and architect of the Florentine school in High Renaissance, celebrated for the perfection and grace of his paintings.Raphael is best known for his many images of Madonnas.Raphael, who in Rome lived in Borgo, never married. He prematurely died on Good Friday (April 6, 1520). -
Jan 1, 1504
Leonardo da Vinci
Leonardo da Vinci was born on April 15, 1452, in the small Tuscan town of Vinci, near Florence. He was a Florentine artist, one of the great masters of the High Renaissance, who was also celebrated as a painter, sculptor, architect, engineer, and scientist.The Mona Lisa, Leonardo's most famous work, is as well known for its mastery of technical innovations as for the mysteriousness of its legendary smiling subject. -
Jan 1, 1510
Nicolaus Copernicus
Nicolaus Copernicus was a mathematician and astronomer who proposed that the sun was stationary in the center of the universe and the earth revolved around it. He was born on 19 February 1473 in the city of Thorn. -
Jan 1, 1536
Andreas Vesalius
Andreas Vesalius, the reorganizer of the study of anatomy, born at Brussels on the last day of 1514. As a boy he showed great interest in the dissection of animals.He dissected entire animals, and gained in this way so much knowledge that at the request of his teachers and fellow students he publicly dissected a corpse and explained its parts. In 1536 he returned to Louvain and made a public dissection there, the first in eighteen years. -
Jan 1, 1548
Tintoretto
Tintoretto - Jacopo Robusti (real name Jacopo Comin) was one of the greatest painters of the Venetian school and probably the last great painter of the Italian Renaissance. He was born in Venice in 1518, as the eldest of 21 children. For the Scuola della Trinity he painted four subjects from Genesis. Two of these, are "Adam and Eve" and the "Death of Abel", both noble works of high mastery. -
Jan 1, 1550
Adam and Eve by Tintoretto
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Gerard Mercator
Gerard Mercator was born on March 5,1512 in Rupelmonde, Flanders (now Belgium).In 1538 he produced his first map of the world (based on Ptolemy's map).He was appointed (1552) to the chair of cosmography in Duisburg.In 1585, Mercator began a work (for which he coined the word atlas) that included many of his earlier maps; the atlas was completed by his son and published in 1594. -
Galileo Galilei
Galileo Galilei was born on February 15, 1564 in Pisa, Italy. Galileo pioneered "experimental scientific method" and was the first to use a refracting telescope to make important astronomical discoveries.He made telescopic observations he made of the Sun in 1613. -
Rene Descartes
Rene Descartes was born at La Haye on March 31, 1596.He was a famous French mathematician, scientist and philosopher.He was arguably the first major philosopher in the modern era to make a serious effort to defeat skepticism.In November 1628 Descartes was in Paris, where he made himself famous in a confrontation with Chandoux. Chandoux claimed that science could only be based on probablitiies.
