Key Figures of the Renaissance

By Mallori
  • Sep 24, 1395

    Jan van Eyck

    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

    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

    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

    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

    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

    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

    Sir Thomas More
    Milk Street in London
  • Dec 6, 1478

    Baldassare Castiglione

    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

    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

    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