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Period: Jan 1, 1300 to
Renaissance
A moment of rebirth -
Jan 1, 1388
Donatello
Many of Donatello's masterpieces are located in Florence. Some of these masterpieces include: St. Peter, St. Mark, Zuccone, St. George and the Dragon, St. John the Evangelist, Magdalen, and Angel with Tambourine. Other pieces considered to be some of his finest work are: Herod's Feast, St. Louis of Toulouse, St. Peter, St. Anthony, an equestrian statue called Gattamelata, and Jeremiah. -
Jan 1, 1472
Leonardo Da Vinci
He painted the Virgin of the Rocks and the Last Supper. In 1499, Leonardo left Milan, traveling through Mantua to the court of Isabella d'Este; to Venice, where he consulted on architecture from 1495 to 1499; and in 1502 and 1503 was military engineer for Cesare Borgia. -
Jan 1, 1473
NICOLAUS COPERNICUS
Nicolaus Copernicus was a Polish astronomer who is commonly acknowledged as the founder of modern astronomy. He also was a lawyer, tax collector, a doctor, military governor, judge, vicar-general of canon law and a Polish astronomer. -
Jan 1, 1486
Bartolome Bermejo
Bermejo's first documented work is the altarpiece he executed for the church of S. Domingo de Silos in Daroca (1474-1477) -
Jan 1, 1490
Micelangelo
At age 23 he completed his Pieta,it took him from 1501-1504. He also made the David,the ceiling of the sistine chapel and he didnt finish half of St.Peter's Bascillia. -
Jan 1, 1504
Raphael
Raphael's most famous paintings is called The School of Athens. -
Jan 1, 1518
GERARDUS MERCATOR
From 1535-1536 Mercator made terrestrial globes for several rich individuals. In 1537 Mercator constructed a globe of the stars. He was the first to use longitude and latitude for sailors. Mercator was also very good at making an accurate map of Western Europe. -
Jan 1, 1561
William Gilbert
He found that while the two poles of the magnetic needle pointed approximately north and south -- the north pole dipped downward in England and that the farther north one went the more the needle dipped.He made a model of the earth from a sphere of iron, magnetized it by rubbing it with a lodestone, and found that when he brought a magnetic needle near it, the needle would come to rest dipping straight down at the poles of the model. -
Jan 1, 1564
GALILEO GALILEI
Galileo was the greatest scientist who ever lived.In 1632 he published an important book of the dialogues concerning the two chief world systems of Ptolemy and Copernicus.He spent the remaining years in a country house under arrest where he was watched closely but was allowed to continue his scientific work. In 1630 he became blind after completing his second major book of dialogues concerning the two new sciences. The book was smuggled to Holland where it was published in 1639. -
RENE DESCARTES
Rene Descartes was one of the greatest philosophers of the Renaissance period.
