Renaissance Key Figures

By Tokeita
  • Sep 23, 1395

    Jan van Eyck

    Jan van Eyck
    Country:Brugees
    Area of Interest: Flemish Painter
    Two Major Historical Facts:Discovered Flemish oil painter and A painting called Saint Christopher
  • Sep 6, 1398

    Johannes Gutenberg

    Johannes Gutenberg
    Country:German city of Mainz
    Area of Interest: Blacksmith, goldsmith, Printer, and publisher.
    Two major historical acheivements: Invented The Printing Press & Printed the first latin Bible
  • Apr 15, 1452

    Leonardo da Vinci

    Leonardo da Vinci
    Country: Italy
    Area Of interest:painter, sculptor, architect, musician, scientist, mathmatican, engineer, inventor, anatomist, geologist, and writer.
    Two major historical acheivements: The Last Supper Painting & Madonna of the Carnation
  • May 3, 1469

    Niccolo Machiavelli

    Niccolo Machiavelli
    Country: Italy
    Area of Interest: Historian, Diplomat, Philospher, humanist, and writer
    Two major historical acheivements: Wrote The Prince & A founder of modern Political Science
  • May 21, 1471

    Albrecht Durer

    Albrecht Durer
    Country:
    Area of Interest:German painter, printmaker, engraver, mathematician, and theorist
    Two major Historical acheivements: Nuremberg, German
  • Mar 6, 1475

    Michelangelo Buonarroti

    Michelangelo Buonarroti
    Country: Italy
    Area interest: sculptor, painter, poet, and engineer
    Two Major Historical Acheivements: The Creation and The Last Judgement
  • Feb 7, 1478

    Sir Thomas More

    Sir Thomas More
    Country: Oxford
    Area of Interest: English Lawyer, scholar, writer, member of parliment
    Two Major Historical Facts: Wrote a book called Utopia & Thomas More was knighted and made and made under treasurer after undertaking a diplomatic mission
  • Dec 6, 1478

    Baldassare Castiglione

    Baldassare Castiglione
    Country: Italy
    Area of Interest: Italian Courtier, Diplomat, soldier, and a prominent Renaissance author.
    Two major Historical acheicements:
  • Apr 6, 1483

    Raphael

    Raphael
    Country:Urbino
    Area of Interest: Italian Painter and architect
    Two major historical Acheivements: Painted Madonna and Julius II
  • Apr 23, 1564

    William Shakespeare

    William Shakespeare
    Country:Stratford-upon-Avon, Warwickshire
    Area of Interests: English Poet ,playright, actor, and writer
    Two Major Historical acheivements: he wrote Romeo and Juliet and He wrote Hamlet