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Mar 28, 1420
rapheal
was an Italian painter and architect of the High Renaissance. His work is admired for its clarity of form and ease of composition and for its visual achievement of the Neoplatonic ideal of human grandeur. Together with Michelangelo and Leonardo da Vinci, he forms the traditional trinity of great masters of that period. -
Jul 9, 1441
Jan van Eyck
was an Early Netherlandish painter active in Bruges and considered one of the best Northern European painters of the 15th century. -
Apr 14, 1452
leonardo da vinci
painter, sculptor, architect, musician, scientist, mathematician, engineer, inventor, anatomist, geologist, cartographer, botanist, and writer. -
May 3, 1469
niccolo machiavelli
was an Italian historian, diplomat, philosopher, humanist and writer based in Florence during the Renaissance. A founder of modern political science, he was a civil servant of the Florentine Republic. He also wrote comedies, carnival songs, and poetry. -
May 21, 1471
Albrecht Dürer
was a German painter, printmaker, engraver, mathematician, and theorist from Nuremberg. His prints established his reputation across Europe when he was still in his twenties, and he has been conventionally regarded as the greatest artist of the Northern Renaissance ever since. -
Mar 6, 1475
Michelangelo di Lodovico Buonarroti Simoni
6 March 1475 – 18 February 1564), commonly known as Michelangelo (Italian pronunciation: [mikeˈlandʒelo]), was an Italian Renaissance sculptor, painter, architect, poet, and engineer who exerted an unparalleled influence on the development of Western art.[ -
Dec 6, 1478
Baldassare Castiglione
Castiglione was born into an illustrious Lombard family at Casatico, near Mantua, where his family had constructed an impressive palazzo. The signoria (lordship) of Casatico (today part of the commune of Marcaria) had been assigned to an ancestor, Baldassare da Castiglione, a friend of Ludovico II Gonzaga Marquis of Mantua, in 1445. -
Dec 31, 1523
Sir Thomas More
was an English lawyer, social philosopher, author, statesman, and noted Renaissance humanist. -
Apr 26, 1564
William Shakespeare
was an English poet and playwright, widely regarded as the greatest writer in the English language and the world's pre-eminent dramatist.
