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Sep 24, 1395
Jan van Eyck
Lived in Bruges
Flemish painter
Appeared in 1433 on Portrait of a Man in a Turban
Married around 1432 -
Sep 24, 1398
Johannes Gutenberg
Mainz, Electorate of Mainz
a German blacksmith, goldsmith, printer, introduced printing to Europe
made polished metal mirrors
title Hofmann by von Nassau -
Apr 15, 1452
Leonardo da Vince
Tuscan hill town of Vinci
painter, sculptor, architect, musician, scientist, mathematician, engineer, inventor, anatomist, geologist, cartographer, botanist, and writer
age of twenty, qualified as a master in the Guild of St Luke
age of fourteen, was apprenticed to the artist Andrea di Cione -
May 3, 1469
Niccolo Machiavelli
Born in Florence, Italy
Italian historian, diplomat, philosopher, humanist & writer
buried at the Church of Santa Croce in Florence
His best-known book, "Il Principe" -
May 21, 1471
Albrecht Durer
Born in Nuremberg, Holy Roman Empire
German painter, printmaker, engraver, mathematician,& theoris
1495, Dürer opened his own workshop
1498, engraving of St. Michael Fighting the Dragon -
Mar 6, 1475
Michelangelo Buonarroti
Caprese near Arezzo, Tuscany.
Italian Renaissance sculptor, painter, architect, poet, & engineer
1493-1494 larger than life statue of Hercules
Age of 21, over-life-size statue of the Roman wine god Bacchus -
Feb 7, 1478
Sir Thomas More
Milk Street in London -
Dec 6, 1478
Baldassare Castiglione
Born in Casatico, near Mantua
was an Italian courtier, diplomat, soldier & a prominent Renaissance author
began his humanist studies in Milan, at age 16
The Book of the Courtier, became most famous in 1528 -
Mar 28, 1483
Raphael
Central Italian city of Urbino
Italian painter and architect of the High Renaissance
Orphaned at eleven
Moved to Rome in the end of 1508 -
Apr 26, 1564
William Shakespeare
Born in Stratford-upon-Avon
English poet and playwright
Produced most of his famous work between 1589-1613
Several plays on stage in London in 1592